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The study of the abstract aspect of the sounds or *phonemes* in a given language.

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Phonetic distortion when words are borrowed among languages

When languages borrow words from other languages, they sometimes deliberately distort words to make them phonetically easier to pronounce. For example, when Japanese speakers are taught the word "ci …
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