Phone
A phone is a speech sound considered as a physical event without regard to its place in the sound system of a language (see phonology and phonetics).
A phoneme is a set of phones that carry the same meaning;
different phones that are interpreted as the same phoneme in a language are said to be allophones of each other.
Phone is a colloquial term for telephone; it is also a verb meaning to call someone on a telephone.
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Phoneme | Phonemes | Phonetic | Phonetics | Relational model | Telephone | Telephony | Transliterated | Transliteration
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