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	Phonetics (from the Greek word φωνή, phone = sound/voice) is the study of sounds (voice).
	Phonetics deals with the sounds themselves rather than the contexts in which they are used in languages.
	Phonetics was studied as early as 2500 years ago in ancient India, with Pāṇini's account of the place and manner of articulation of consonants in his 5th century BCE treatise of Sanskrit.

Article about "Phonetics" in the English Wikipedia on 24-Apr-2004 (391 words)
	Phones, the objects of study in phonetics, are actual speech sounds as uttered by human beings.
	While written languages and alphabets are obviously (in most cases) closely related to the sounds of speech, strictly speaking, phoneticists are more concerned with the sounds of speech than the symbols used to represent them.
	Phonetics was studied as early as 2500 years ago in ancient India.

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