Example sentences for: phonetic

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

  • Pronunciations are given as necessary, using an adaptation of the International Phonetic Alphabet developed by the Barnharts for this series.

  • When the Chinese were confronted with the problem of expressing foreign terms and names, as happened on a large scale with the introduction of Buddhism in the first century A.D., they did so by further extending the use of Chinese characters as phonetic symbols.

  • 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.

  • Apropos of Gorbachev--and Khrushchev too for that matter--those es in their names pose a problem of phonetic correspondence.

  • Next, when looking at a Chinese character, the symbol can be purely phonetic, purely semantic, or a combination of both.


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