⟨ ⟩, see IPA § Brackets and transcription delimiters. In phonology, an allophone (/ˈæləfoʊn/ ; from the Greek ἄλλος, állos, 'other' and φωνή, phōnē, 'voice...

In Canada, an allophone is a resident whose first language is neither French nor English. The term parallels anglophone and francophone, which designate...

albeit with [β] being an allophone for another consonant in both cases. In Bashkir language, it is an intervocal allophone of /b/, and it is contrastive...

as merely being variants (allophones) of a single phoneme that is traditionally transcribed in the IPA as /t/. Allophones each have technically different...

a conditioned allophone of other sounds, for example as an allophone of /n/ before a uvular plosive as in Quechua, or as an allophone of /q/ before another...

languages that have it, as in English tenth. Similarly, a denti-alveolar allophone occurs in languages that have denti-alveolar stops, as in Spanish cinta...

fricatives. Although commonly appearing in languages, it is overwhelmingly an allophone restricted to a position before the labiodental consonants [f] and [v]...

languages, usually alongside the voiced version, as a similar phoneme or an allophone. Proto-Indo-European *sr developed into a sound spelled ⟨ῥ⟩, with the...

velar nasal as a phoneme, such as the Romance languages, it occurs as an allophone of /n/ before velar consonants. This kind of assimilation can even be...

world's languages have /ç/ as a phoneme. The sound further occurs as an allophone of /x/ (e.g. in German or Greek), or, in other languages, of /h/ in the...

In some languages, such as Spanish, the voiced velar approximant is an allophone of /g/ – see below. The symbol for the velar approximant originates from...

following: allophone of /k/ in coda allophone of /p/ allophone of /l/ allophone of /ɣ/ Matateyou uses the letter for implosive /ɓ/ allophone of /r/ allophone of...

considered to be phonemes: [dʒ] is an allophone of /j/ occurring after /n/ and when geminated (doubled). [ŋ] is an allophone of /n/ occurring before [k] and...

Grimm's law. In Modern Greek, the voiceless velar fricative (with its allophone, the voiceless palatal fricative [ç], occurring before front vowels) originated...

the letters represent. [ŋ] occurred as an allophone of /n/ that was used before velars and as an allophone of /ɡ/ before nasals. /r/ was probably voiceless...

hard consonants and /i, u/ after soft ones. These vowels have several allophones, which are displayed on the diagram to the right. Russian has preserved...

compressed. See close back compressed vowel. It also occurs in Japanese as an allophone. Medumba has a compressed central vowel [ɨᵝ] where the corners of the...

English, it occurs phonetically in nearly all dialects of English, as an allophone of /t/ in the syllable coda. Speakers of Cockney, Scottish English and...

stops may surface as spirants with various degrees of constriction. These allophones are not limited to regular fricative articulations, but range from articulations...

voiceless dental & alveolar lateral approximant is constantly found as an allophone of its voiced counterpart in British English and Philadelphia English...

shown below. All but [ʔ] occur at the onset of a syllable: [ʔ] is an allophone of /k/ at the end of a word. The following consonants can close a CVC...

unrounded allophone of /ə/ is mid central unrounded [ə], but its word-final rounded allophone is close-mid front rounded [ø̜], close to the main allophone of...

are as follows: Allophones of some of these phonemes include: [k͡m] is an allophone of /k͡p/ before nasal vowels [ŋ͡m] is an allophone of /ɡ͡b/ before...

variants. Tagalog has allophones, so it is important here to distinguish phonemes (written in slashes / /) and corresponding allophones (written in brackets...

/i.ə/ and /u.ə/, respectively. In other cases, [iː] and [uː] occur as allophones of, respectively, /i/ and /u/ before /r/. /y/ is phonetically long [yː]...

languages for which the segment is present but not phonemic, it is often an allophone of either an alveolar stop ([t], [d], or both) or a rhotic consonant (like...

developed [h] as an allophone of /s/ or /x/ in most Spanish-speaking countries, and various dialects of Portuguese use it as an allophone of /ʀ/. 'H' is also...

tap allophone occurs in American and Australian English and in Northern Low Saxon. In American and Australian English it tends to be an allophone of intervocalic...

nip [nɪp̚] or [nɪʔp] In RP, the lateral approximant /l/, has two main allophones (pronunciation variants): the clear or plain [l], as in light, and the...

an allophone of /d/ before long non high vowels. [x] can occur as an allophone of /k/, /h/ in the Maswamu dialect. [cç, tʃ] can occur as allophones of...