English example sentences with "phonetic"

Can you read phonetic signs?
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English is not a phonetic language.
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Can you read phonetic symbols?
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Tom can read the International Phonetic Alphabet.
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Curacao uses a phonetic writing system.
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The Italian language is often praised for its phonetic orthography. Words are written according to their pronunciation, regardless of their etymology.
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Esperanto is a completely phonetic language.
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The International Phonetic Alphabet was created in 1888.
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Because Esperanto is a completely phonetic language, misspellings are virtually non-existent.
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Women developed the phonetic script called "nu shu," or "female writing," centuries ago in Jiangyong County, Hunan province. They used it to communicate with close friends, who were often sent to distant villages after their marriages.
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The Kurdish alphabet in Latin characters is a phonetic alphabet that allows us to pronounce every word exactly as it is written.
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With phonetic languages, you can look at a written word and know how to pronounce it: read as it is written!
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With phonetic languages, you can hear a word and know how to spell it: one sound one letter!
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With phonetic languages, each letter has a single corresponding sound: spelling matches the pronunciation.
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Languages like English and French are not phonetic: they have letters that can be pronounced in different ways or sometimes not at all.
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Knowing the International Phonetic Alphabet as it pertains to English helps understanding the underlying mechanisms of English phonology blanketed by an awkward orthography.
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I am studying linguistics; right now, I have to memorize the entire International Phonetic Alphabet.
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Can you read the phonetic alphabet?
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In my North American fifth-grade class, a teacher introduced us students to some basic French vocabulary and phrases. I found French a strange language with nonphonetic spelling, like English. My native Tagalog, which I learned in the Philippines, uses phonetic spelling.
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I have to use something like the International Phonetic Alphabet to describe my mother's foreign pronunciation of "raspberry." English isn't like Spanish or some phonemic language in writing.
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At the end of last month, May of 2014, Bratislav, of Croatian descent, had left the Lulu Island neighbourhood, he having bought a new house and abandoning his slender townhouse. One of our last meetings in the neighbourhood was at the Rideau School field. We discussed plenty. Russia and China had been "State Capitalist" regimes and not "Communist" as they claimed to be. There was an alien "spacecraft" hovering invisibly above the grassy field; oh no, it was some kind of "portal"; oh no, it was an "incorporeal being." Many East Asian logograms, or "Sinograms," had a categorizing radical along with a hinting phonetic radical; they were not all pictographic. Daoists, I said, liked to be like a simple driftwood. There were aliens aplenty, Bratislav repeated. That day on the field last month, the thousands of dandelions were abundant with cloudy tufts of their soon-to-fly seeds.

Japanese use a lot of sinograms. Many sinograms have a categorizing radical along with a phonetic hint radical, historically for Chinese. Sometimes, Japanese borrow a sinogram and pronounce it with a Japanese native reading, so the original Chinese historicity becomes semi-irrelevant. In a way, Japanese writing is a real mishmash.

In this case the master of Comparative Philology disregarded the phonetic laws which he had himself helped to establish.

Polysynthesis is a method of word-building, applicable either to nominals or verbals, which not only employs juxtaposition with aphaeresis, syncope, apocope, etc., but also words, forms of words and significant phonetic elements which have no separate existence apart from such compounds.

I study linguistics; now I have to memorize the whole International Phonetic Alphabet.

The International Phonetic Alphabet is part of a conlangs development.