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Encyclopedia > Allophone (Quebec)

In Quebec, an allophone is someone whose first language or language of use is neither English nor French. The term is also sometimes used in other parts of Canada. It is formed from the Greek roots allos, meaning other, and phone, meaning sound or voice. Beginning in 1963, a terrorist group that became known as the Front de libération du Québec (FLQ) launched a decade of bombings, robberies and attacks on government offices and at least two murders by FLQ gunfire and three violent deaths by bombings. ... First language (native language, mother tongue, or vernacular) is the language a person learns first. ... The English language is a West Germanic language that originates in England. ...


Compare the terms anglophone and francophone, which designate people whose first or adoptive languages are English and French, respectively. An anglophone is someone who speaks English natively or by adoption. ... A Francophone is a person who speaks French natively or by adoption (i. ...


See also

Bilingualism in Canada refers to laws and policies of the federal government – and some other levels of government – mandating that certain services and communications be available to the public in both English and French. ...

External link

  • Government of Canada, Secretariat for Official Language Minority Communities

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Allophone (184 words)
In phonetics, an allophone is one of several similar speech sounds belonging to a phoneme.
For example p as in pin and p as in spin are allophones in the English language.
A phoneme as one of the abstract signals of the phonetic system of a language corresponds to a set of similar speech sounds which are perceived by speakers of the language to be a single distinctive sound in that language.
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