Phonetic can be categorized as a noun and an adjective.
Adjective |
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| phonetic - of or relating to speech sounds; "phonetic transcription" | ||
| phonetic - of or relating to the scientific study of speech sounds; "phonetic analysis" | ||
Noun |
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| phonetic - In such logographic writing systems as the Chinese writing system, the portion of a character if any that provides an indication of its pronunciation; contrasted with radical. |
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| 1. | adj. | Phonetic transcription. | |
| 2. | adj. | Phonetic analysis. | |
| 3. | adj. | Can you read phonetic signs? | |
| 4. | adj. | English is not a phonetic language. | |
| 5. | adj. | Can you read phonetic symbols? | |
| 6. | adj. | Curacao uses a phonetic writing system. | |
| 7. | adj. | The Italian language is often praised for its phonetic orthography. Words are written according to their pronunciation, regardless of their etymology. | |
| 8. | adj. | Esperanto is a completely phonetic language. | |
| 9. | adj. | Because Esperanto is a completely phonetic language, misspellings are virtually non-existent. | |
| 10. | adj. | Women developed the phonetic script called "nu shu," or "female writing," centuries ago in Jiangyong County, Hunan province. They used it to communicate with close friends, who were often sent to distant villages after their marriages. | |
| 11. | adj. | The Kurdish alphabet in Latin characters is a phonetic alphabet that allows us to pronounce every word exactly as it is written. | |
| 12. | adj. | With phonetic languages, you can look at a written word and know how to pronounce it: read as it is written! | |
| 13. | adj. | With phonetic languages, you can hear a word and know how to spell it: one sound one letter! | |
| 14. | adj. | With phonetic languages, each letter has a single corresponding sound: spelling matches the pronunciation. | |
| 15. | adj. | Languages like English and French are not phonetic: they have letters that can be pronounced in different ways or sometimes not at all. |
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| adj. | |
| Phonetic transcription. |
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| Phonetic analysis. |
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| Can you read phonetic signs? | |
| English is not a phonetic language. | |
| Can you read phonetic symbols? | |
| Curacao uses a phonetic writing system. | |
| The Italian language is often praised for its phonetic orthography. Words are written according to their pronunciation, regardless of their etymology. | |
| Esperanto is a completely phonetic language. | |
| Because Esperanto is a completely phonetic language, misspellings are virtually non-existent. | |
| Women developed the phonetic script called "nu shu," or "female writing," centuries ago in Jiangyong County, Hunan province. They used it to communicate with close friends, who were often sent to distant villages after their marriages. | |
| The Kurdish alphabet in Latin characters is a phonetic alphabet that allows us to pronounce every word exactly as it is written. | |
| With phonetic languages, you can look at a written word and know how to pronounce it: read as it is written! | |
| With phonetic languages, you can hear a word and know how to spell it: one sound one letter! | |
| With phonetic languages, each letter has a single corresponding sound: spelling matches the pronunciation. | |
| Languages like English and French are not phonetic: they have letters that can be pronounced in different ways or sometimes not at all. | |