What is fonetic?

Answer 1

The way you wrote the word phonetic.
Also known as the phonetic spelling.
Very clever.

Answer 2

Phonetic

http://www.thefreedictionary.com/phonetic

Answer 3

Phonetic refers to the sound or sounds individual letter and/or combinations of letters represent.

Your spelling blunder was caused by the fact that both "f" and "ph" can represent the sound heard in telephone.

English is a phonetic language as are most European languages. English has over 100 combinations to represent about 45 sounds. (The number of sounds in English depends upon where you live. Some regions have more sounds than others. )

Chinese is not a phonetic language.

Answer 4

I see you've answered your own question. 'Phonetic' simply means something to do with how words are pronounced, and how they sound, and 'fonetic', if it was a word, would be a homophone of 'phonetic' (i.e. sounding the same).

It can also relate to 'phonetics' (note the extra 's'): the, and I quote, 'branch of linguistics that deals with the sounds of speech and their production, combination, description, and representation by written symbols.'

Hope this helped more than the other answers.

Answer 5

relating to the sounds of (a) language
Example: He's making a phonetic study of the speech of the deaf. Arabic: صَوْتي
Chinese (Simplified): 语音的
Chinese (Traditional): 語音的
Czech: fonetický
Danish: fonetisk
Dutch: fonetisch
Estonian: foneetiline
Finnish: foneettinen
French: phonétique
German: phonetisch
Greek: φωνητικός
Hungarian: fonetikus
Icelandic: hljóðfræðilegur
Indonesian: fonetik
Italian: fonetico
Japanese: 音声の
Korean: 음성의
Latvian: fonētisks
Lithuanian: fonetinis
Norwegian: fonetisk
Polish: fonetyczny
Portuguese (Brazil): fonético
Portuguese (Portugal): fonético
Romanian: fonetic
Russian: фонетический
Slovak: fonetický
Slovenian: fonetičen
Spanish: fonético
Swedish: fonetisk
Turkish: fonetik, sesçil

Answer 6

Did you mean Phonetic?
1. Also, pho·net·i·cal. of or pertaining to speech sounds, their production, or their transcription in written symbols.
2. corresponding to pronunciation: phonetic transcription.
3. agreeing with pronunciation: phonetic spelling.
4. concerning or involving the discrimination of nondistinctive elements of a language. In English, certain phonological features, as length and aspiration, are phonetic but not phonemic.
–noun 5. (in Chinese writing) a written element that represents a sound and is used in combination with a radical to form a character.

Answer 7

"Phonetics, pronounced foh NEHT ihks or fuh NEHT ihks, is the science of speech sounds and the symbols by which they are shown in writing and printing. This science is based on a study of all the parts of the body concerned in making and hearing speech. It includes the positions of the parts of the body necessary for producing spoken words, and the effect of air from the lungs as it passes through the larynx, pharynx, vocal cords, nasal passages, and mouth. Phonetics also deals with the physical properties of sound--such as frequency and amplitude--that permit people to hear speech sounds as different from one another."

Answer 8

Phonetics (phone meaning 'sound, voice') is the study of the sounds of human speech. It is concerned with the actual properties of speech sounds (phones), and their production, audition and perception, as opposed to phonology, which is the study of sound systems and abstract sound units (such as phonemes and distinctive features). Phonetics deals with the sounds themselves rather than the contexts in which they are used in languages. Discussions of meaning (semantics) do not enter at this level of linguistic analysis.

Phonetics has three main branches:

articulatory phonetics, concerned with the positions and movements of the lips, tongue, vocal tract and folds and other speech organs in producing speech;
acoustic phonetics, concerned with the properties of the sound waves and how they are received by the inner ear; and
auditory phonetics, concerned with speech perception, principally how the brain forms perceptual representations of the input it receives.
There are over a hundred different phones recognized as distinctive by the International Phonetic Association (IPA) and transcribed in their International Phonetic Alphabet.

Phonetics was studied as early as 2,500 years ago in ancient India, with Pāṇini's account of the place and manner of articulation of consonants in his 5th century BCE treatise on Sanskrit. The major Indic alphabets today, except Tamil script, order their consonants according to Pāṇini's classification.

Answer 9

Phonetic: the sounds of a language, or how one sounds out a word

Answer 10

First off Friend, you spelled it incorrectly. It is Phonetic. It is the sounding out verbally of words