Phone

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A Phone is the smallest identifiable unit that can be transcribed using an IPA symbol

in phonetics and linguistics, it a distinct sound or gesture, regardless of whether it is critical to the meaning of the word of which it is a part.

To contrast, a phoneme is a vocal sound in a given language that, if swapped with another phoneme, would change the meaning of a given word.

Phones are unspecific to any language and are absolute while phonemes can only be discussed in terms of a specific language.

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