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An '''allophone''' (from Greek "other" and "sound") is an audibly distinct sound that is not a separate phoneme. Examples are the aspirated initial ''p'' and unaspirated final ''p'' of ''pip.''<ref>[http://grammar.about.com/od/ab/g/allophoneterm.htm Definition of allophone]</ref> In [[English]], there is no minimal pair, while in some languages, such as [[Mandarin Chinese]], there could be, in which case those two sounds would be phonemes, not allophones.
An '''allophone''' (from Greek "other" and "sound") is an audibly distinct sound that is not a separate phoneme. Examples are the aspirated initial ''p'' and unaspirated final ''p'' of ''pip.''<ref>[http://grammar.about.com/od/ab/g/allophoneterm.htm Definition of allophone]</ref> In [[English]], there is no minimal pair, while in some languages, such as [[Mandarin Chinese]], there could be, in which case those two sounds would be phonemes, not allophones.
'''Tone''' is the use of [[pitch]] to distinguish words. Different tones that distinguish words in the same way as phonemes are called '''tonemes''', and languages with tonemes are called '''tonal languages'''. The majority of languages in the world are tonal languages.<ref>[http://www.wordiq.com/definition/Tone_%28linguistics%29 Tone (linguistics)]</ref>
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