Phonetics (disambiguation)

Phonetics is a branch of linguistics that comprises the study of the sounds of human speech.

Phonetics or phonetic may also refer to:

• One of a number of phonetic alphabets including:
  • International Phonetic Alphabet, an alphabetic system of phonetic notation based primarily on the Latin alphabet;
  • NATO Phonetic Alphabet, an alphabetic system used in radio communication;
• Phonetic transcription, using a phonetic alphabet to record speech in writing;
• A peer-reviewed academic journal such as:
  • Phonetica;
  • Journal of Phonetics;
• The International Phonetic Association (IPA), an organization that promotes the scientific study and practical application of phonetics;
• Phonetic Extensions, a section of Unicode containing phonetic characters used in displaying phonetic symbols on a compmuter;
• Phonetic algorithm, algorithm for indexing of words by their pronunciation
• Phonetic complement, phonetic symbol used to disambiguate word characters (logograms) that have multiple readings, in mixed logographic-phonetic scripts such as Egyptian hieroglyphs, Akkadian cuneiform, Japanese, and Mayan;
• Phonetic reversal, the process of reversing the phonemes or phones of a word or phrase