Phone

Phone is also a colloquial term for Telephone. Phon is a measure of sound intensity.

Within Phonetics and Phonology, a phone is

• a speech-sound considered as a physical event without regard to its place in the Phonology of a Language.
• A segment that possess distinct acoustic properties.
• A particular occurrence of a speech-sound segment.
• The basic sound-unit revealed via phonetic speech analysis.

To make it distinguishable from a language, phonetic symbology is enclosed within brackets.

The word originates from Greek φωνή, meaning "sound" and also "voice".

See also

• Phoneme, a set of phones that carry the same meaning.
• Allophone
• List of phonetics topics