phonetics

English

Etymology

phonetic +‎ -ics.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fəˈnɛtɪks/

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.

Related terms

• phonetic
• phonetician
• phonology
• International Phonetic Alphabet

Translations

study of speech sounds and their representation by written symbols

• Arabic: صَوْتِيَات‏‎ pl (ṣawtiyāt)
• Armenian: հնչյունաբանություն (hy) (hnčʿyunabanutʿyun)
• Asturian: fonética f
• Catalan: fonètica f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 語音學 (zh), 语音学 (zh) (yǔyīnxué)

• Czech: fonetika f
• Danish: fonetik (da) c
• Dutch: fonetiek (nl) f, klankleer (nl) m, f
• Faroese: ljóðfrøði f, ljóðlæra f
• Finnish: fonetiikka (fi), äänneoppi (fi)
• French: phonétique (fr) f
• Galician: fonética (gl) f
• German: Phonetik (de) f, Lautlehre f
• Hindi: स्वरविज्ञान (hi) m (svarvijñān)
• Italian: fonetica (it) f
• Japanese: 音声学 (おんせいがく, onseigaku)
• Khmer: សទ្ទិកវិទ្យា (satti’ak vityie), សព្ទសញ្ញាវិទ្យា (sap saññaa vityie)
• Korean: 음성학 (ko) (uemseong-hak) (音聲學 (ko)), 어음학 (eo-eumhak)
• Latvian: fonētika f

• Lithuanian: fonetika (lt) f
• Macedonian: фонетика f (fonétika)
• Malay: fonetik, kaji bunyi bahasa
• Norwegian Bokmål: fonetikk (no) m
• Persian: آواشناسی‏‎ (fa) (âvašenâsi)
• Polish: fonetyka (pl) f
• Portuguese: fonética (pt) f
• Romanian: fonetică (ro) f
• Russian: фоне́тика (ru) f (fonɛ́tika)
• Serbo-Croatian: fonetika (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
• Turkish: sesbilgisi, fonetik (tr)
• Vietnamese: ngư âm học (語音學)
• Yiddish: פֿאָנעטיק‏‎ f (fonetik)

Anagrams

• Ctesiphon, sphenotic