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    ⟨ ⟩, see IPA § Brackets and transcription delimiters. In phonology, an allophone (/ˈæləfoʊn/ ; from the Greek ἄλλος, állos, 'other' and φωνή, phōnē, 'voice...
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  • In Canada, an allophone is a resident whose first language is neither French nor English. The term parallels anglophone and francophone, which designate...
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  • 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...
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    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...
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  • 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...
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    fricatives. Although commonly appearing in languages, it is overwhelmingly an allophone restricted to a position before the labiodental consonants [f] and [v]...
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    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...
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  • H
    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...
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    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...
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    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...
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