The sound exists in the language only as an allophone of the phoneme /t/.
Source: tatoeba (6037954)
Allophone
//ˈæləˌfoʊn//
Synonyms for "allophone" (33 found)
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Related words (16)
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3 entriesTranslations
48 translations across 25 languages.
Armenian
2 entries- ալլոֆոն noun (alternative pronunciation for a phoneme)
- ենթահնչույթ noun (alternative pronunciation for a phoneme)
Catalan
1 entries- al·lòfon noun (alternative pronunciation for a phoneme)
Chinese Mandarin
1 entries- 同位異音 /同位异音 noun (alternative pronunciation for a phoneme)
Dutch
3 entries- allofoon noun (alternative pronunciation for a phoneme)
- foonvariant noun (alternative pronunciation for a phoneme)
- stemvariant noun (alternative pronunciation for a phoneme)
Esperanto
1 entries- alofono noun (alternative pronunciation for a phoneme)
Finnish
3 entries- vähemmistökieltä äidinkielenään puhuva adj (of a language other than that spoken by the majority)
- allofoni noun (alternative pronunciation for a phoneme)
- vähemmistökieltä äidinkielenään puhuva noun (person whose mother tongue is one other than that spoken by the majority)
French
4 entries- allophone adj (of a language neither English nor French)
- allophone adj (of a language other than that spoken by the majority)
- allophone noun (alternative pronunciation for a phoneme)
- allophone noun (person whose mother tongue is neither English nor French)
Galician
1 entries- alófono noun (alternative pronunciation for a phoneme)
German
4 entries- allophon adj (of a language other than that spoken by the majority)
- Allofon noun (alternative pronunciation for a phoneme)
- Allophon noun (alternative pronunciation for a phoneme)
- Allophone noun (person whose mother tongue is one other than that spoken by the majority)
Irish
1 entries- allafón noun (alternative pronunciation for a phoneme)
Italian
2 entries- allofono noun (alternative pronunciation for a phoneme)
- variante combinatoria noun (alternative pronunciation for a phoneme)
Japanese
1 entries- 異音 noun (alternative pronunciation for a phoneme)
Korean
1 entries- 이음 noun (alternative pronunciation for a phoneme)
Lower Sorbian
1 entries- alofon noun (alternative pronunciation for a phoneme)
Mongolian
1 entries- авиалбарын хувилбар noun (alternative pronunciation for a phoneme)
Plains-Cree
1 entries- opîtatowêw noun (person whose mother tongue is neither English nor French)
Polish
2 entries- allofon noun (alternative pronunciation for a phoneme)
- alofon noun (alternative pronunciation for a phoneme)
Portuguese
1 entries- alófono noun (alternative pronunciation for a phoneme)
Russian
1 entries- аллофо́н noun (alternative pronunciation for a phoneme)
Serbo-Croatian
1 entries- alofon noun (alternative pronunciation for a phoneme)
Spanish
4 entries- alófono adj (of a language other than that spoken by the majority)
- alófona noun (person whose mother tongue is one other than that spoken by the majority)
- alófono noun (alternative pronunciation for a phoneme)
- alófono noun (person whose mother tongue is one other than that spoken by the majority)
Swedish
1 entries- allofon noun (alternative pronunciation for a phoneme)
Turkish
1 entries- alofon noun (alternative pronunciation for a phoneme)
Vietnamese
2 entries- tha âm noun (alternative pronunciation for a phoneme)
- tha âm vị noun (alternative pronunciation for a phoneme)
Welsh
2 entries- allffon noun (alternative pronunciation for a phoneme)
- aloffon noun (alternative pronunciation for a phoneme)
Sample sentences
8 total sentences available.
The sound exists in the language, but only as an allophone.
Source: tatoeba (6037955)
The phone [b] exists in the language only as an allophone of /p/.
Source: tatoeba (6037957)
In some languages, [ʋ] is an allophone of /v/.
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