Example sentences for: phonetic

How can you use “phonetic” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • The transcriptions are, mercifully, what phoneticians call “broad,” which provide the basic information needed to be able to reproduce the pronunciation, as compared with “narrow,” in which detailed phonetic features are reflected that are useful for specialists but clutter up the field for ordinary users.

  • It is the system of writing that the victorious Japanese wanted to impose on the defeated Australians, New Zealanders, and Americans at the end of World War II, forcing them to abandon Latin letters and use Chinese logographs as phonetic equivalents of English words instead.

  • Here, too, there are subtle differences from one country to another both in the spoken word and in the written word, from the phonetic Krio of Sierra Leone and Liberia to the more straightforward pidgins of Nigeria and Cameroon.

  • Such trans-alphabetic texts are approximate phonetic productions written by or for someone interested in but not capable of reading a particular language in its proper alphabet.

  • ' The phonetic nature of Chinese (and Sino-Japanese) is demonstrated again!


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