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What are allophones?

What are allophones? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. plural of allophone
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Now that the Canadian and Quebec governments are trying to pick immigrants who already speak French or English, it will make it harder for allophones to do well here.
In Quebec, the linguistic majority abuses the groups they call anglophones and allophones.
For example, anglophones, aboriginals and allophones in Quebec have firm assurances that they will not be expelled, fired from their jobs, stripped of their property or citizenship, systematically harassed on the street, etc.
Occasionally it is convenient to use a transcription in which some of the allophones are represented by specific symbols, or some of the phonemes are designated by the symbols for a more restricted set of categories.
The bill was welcomed by Québec nationalists, but sparked anger among anglophones, allophones and even some francophone parents who lost the right to enrol their children in English school.
The fricative g and plosive q are likely to be interchangeable allophones of a single glottal phoneme.

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