phonetic
adjective
Also phonetical of or relating to speech sounds, their production, or their transcription in written symbols.
nonphonetic
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a word derived from
phonetic.
Example Sentences
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What writing itself, in its nonphonetic moment, betrays, is life.
From The New Yorker ● May 31, 2010
"It makes nonphonetic English a phonetic language without changing the traditional spellings."
From Time Magazine Archive
The earliest Sumerian writing consisted of nonphonetic logograms.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
He had meant to start teaching Sonny blacksmithing, but during the evening Lillian and Anna had decided to try teaching Mom a nonphonetic, ideographic, alphabet, and in the morning they co-opted Sonny to help.
From Naudsonce by H. Beam Piper
