allophone

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Blogue d'un étudiant musulman allophone socialiste à propos des nouvelles internationales, nationales, et québécoises, avec concerne pour la démocratie, les droits humains, et le développement et pauvreté

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  1. noun Linguistics A predictable phonetic variant of a phoneme. For example, the aspirated t of top, the unaspirated t of stop, and the tt (pronounced as a flap) of batter are allophones of the English phoneme /t/.
  2. noun Canadian A person whose native language is other than French or English.

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  • Blogue d'un étudiant musulman allophone socialiste à propos des nouvelles internationales, nationales, et québécoises, avec concerne pour la démocratie, les droits humains, et le développement et pauvreté —  Blogging Change
  • A Muslim allophone socialist student's multilingual blog concerning international, Québécois and Canadian news and current avents, with an interest in democracy, human rights, development, and poverty. —  Blogging Change
  • A Muslim allophone socialist student's multilingual blog concerning international, Québécois and Canadian news and current avents, with an interest in democracy, human rights, development, and poverty, especially when concerning G. B, Northern Ireland, Palestine, —  Blogging Change
  • "They have just opened a hole in the protection of the French language because it will allow any francophone or allophone to get around Bill 101 for a few thousand dollars," said PQ Leader Pauline Marois. —  Winnipeg Sun
  • L'objectif est double: servir un public s'intéressant à la culture et la langue françaises et "recruter" un public allophone en mettant à disposition des produits d'appel tels que vidéos documentaires, livres audio, CD-Rom. —  Entretiens / Interviews / Entrevistas
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