They are considered allophones, which hinders their sense of belonging and visibility in Francophone communities. |
The allophones of a phoneme, then, are its contextually determined variants and they are in complementary distribution. |
In Japanese and some dialects of Chinese, the sounds f and h are allophones. |
Now that the Canadian and Quebec governments are trying to pick immigrants who already speak French or English, it will make it harder for allophones to do well here. |
In Quebec, the linguistic majority abuses the groups they call anglophones and allophones. |
My children have always been considered allophones, even though their mother tongue is French. |