phonetics

English

Etymology

phonetic +‎ -s.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fəˈnɛtɪks/

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• Rhymes: -ɛtɪks
• Hyphenation: pho‧ne‧tics, phon‧et‧ics

Noun

phonetics (uncountable)

1. (linguistics) The study of the physical sounds of human speech, concerned with the physical properties of speech sounds (phones), and the processes of their physiological production, auditory reception, and neurophysiological perception, and their representation by written symbols.

   Synonym: phonics

   Coordinate terms: phonemics, phonics

   This dictionary shows the phonetics of the words.

Derived terms

• acoustic phonetics
• articulatory phonetics
• auditory phonetics

 

Related terms

• International Phonetic Alphabet
• phonetic
• phonetician
• phonology

 

Translations

study of speech sounds and their representation by written symbols

• Afrikaans: fonetiek
• Arabic: صَوْتِيَات pl (ṣawtiyāt)
• Armenian: հնչյունաբանություն (hy) (hnčʻyunabanutʻyun)
• Asturian: fonética (ast) f
• Azerbaijani: fonetika
• Bashkir: фонетика (fonetika)
• Bengali: ধ্বনিবিজ্ঞান (bn) (dhonibiggên)
• Bulgarian: фонетика (bg) f (fonetika)
• Burmese: သဒ္ဒဗေဒ (my) (sadda.beda.)
• Catalan: fonètica f
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 語音學／语音学 (jyu⁵ jam¹ hok⁶)

  Hokkien: 語音學／语音学 (gír-im-ha̍k)

  Mandarin: 語音學／语音学 (zh) (yǔyīnxué)

• Chuvash: фонетика (fonet̬ik̬a)
• Czech: fonetika f
• Danish: fonetik (da) c
• Dutch: fonetiek (nl) f, klankleer (nl) m or f
• Erzya: фонетика (fońeťika), гайтьсодамо (gajťsodamo)
• Esperanto: fonetiko
• Faroese: ljóðfrøði f, ljóðlæra f
• Finnish: fonetiikka (fi), äänneoppi (fi)
• French: phonétique (fr) f
• Galician: fonética (gl) f
• German: Phonetik (de) f, Lautlehre f
• Guaraní: ñe'ẽpukuaaty
• Hindi: स्वरविज्ञान (hi) m (svarvijñān)
• Hungarian: fonetika (hu)
• Indonesian: fonetik (id)
• Interlingua: phonetica
• Irish: foghraíocht f
• Italian: fonetica (it) f
• Japanese: 音声学 (ja) (おんせいがく, onseigaku)
• Kazakh: фонетика (fonetika)
• Khmer: សទ្ទិកវិទ្យា (satti’ak vityie), សព្ទសញ្ញាវិទ្យា (sap saññaa vityie)
• Korean: 음성학(音聲學) (ko) (eumseonghak), 어음학 (eo'eumhak)
• Latvian: fonētika f
• Lithuanian: fonetika (lt) f
• Macedonian: фонетика f (fonetika)
• Malay: fonetik (ms), kaji bunyi bahasa
• Manx: sheeanaghtys m
• Mongolian:

  Cyrillic: авиазүй (aviazüj)

  Mongolian: ᠠᠪᠢᠶ᠎ᠠ
  ᠵᠦᠢ (abiy-a ǰüi)

• N'Ko: ߡߍ߲ߞߊ߲ߟߐ߲ߘߐߦߊ
• Norwegian Bokmål: fonetikk (no) m
• Occitan: fonetica (oc) f
• Persian: آواشناسی (fa) (âvâšenâsi)
• Polish: fonetyka (pl) f
• Portuguese: fonética (pt) f
• Romanian: fonetică (ro) f
• Russian: фоне́тика (ru) f (fonɛ́tika)
• Santali: ᱟᱲᱟᱝ ᱥᱟᱬᱮᱥ (aṛaṅ saṇes)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: фонѐтика f

  Roman: fonètika (sh) f

• Sindhi: وايوڪيات (sd) f
• Slovak: fonetika (sk) f
• Slovene: fonetika f
• Spanish: fonética (es) f
• Swahili: fonetiki
• Swedish: fonetik (sv) c
• Tagalog: palatinigan
• Tamil: ஒலியியல் (ta) (oliyiyal)
• Thai: สัทศาสตร์ (th) (sàt-tá-sàat)
• Turkish: sesbilgisi, fonetik (tr)
• Vietnamese: ngữ âm học (vi) (語音學)
• Welsh: seineg f
• Yiddish: פֿאָנעטיק f (fonetik)

Anagrams

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