Allophone (disambiguation)

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Allophone can have several meanings:

  • Allophone in phonetics, one of different ways that a single phoneme may be pronounced.
  • Allophone (demographics) in many demographic studies refers to someone whose native language is different than that of the official language of a region.
  • Allophone (Quebec), a person whose native language is neither French nor English.
  • Allophone is also a model of novelty telephones.
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