phonemic

Adjective

• of or relating to phonemes of a particular language
  • "phonemic analysis"

Adverb

• by phonemics
  • "phonemically transcribed"

Adj

• Relating to phonemes.
• Relating to a difference between sounds that can change the meaning of words in a language.
• Corresponding precisely and consistently with the sounds of the phonemes.

Examples

• Spanish orthography is highly phonemic: you can tell exactly how the words sound just by looking at how they are spelled.
• Tone is phonemic in Chinese.
• We've finished our phonemic analysis and we're ready to move on to morphology.

Related Words

emic, etic, phoneme, phonemicity, phonemicness, phonemics, phonetic, phonology

Anagrams of phonemic