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Phone

Phone is a colloquial term for telephone.

In phonetics and phonology, a phone is a speech sound considered as a physical event without regard to its place in the sound system of a language. Compare with phoneme, a set of phones that carry the same meaning.

The word originates from Greek φωνή for sound/voice.

See also

  • allophone
  • List of phonetics topics


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