An allophone
is a phonetic variant of a phoneme in a particular language. In phonology, an
allophone (from the Greek: állos, "other") is one of a set of
multiple possible spoken sounds (or phones) used to pronounce a single
phoneme.[1] For example, [pʰ] (as in pin) and [p] (as in
spin) are allophones for the phoneme /p/ in the English language.
Examples
(English)
• [p]
and [pH] are allophones of the phoneme /p/.
• [t] and [tH] are allophones of the
phoneme /t/.