Sentence examples for phonetic value from inspiring English sources

I knew the phonetic value of each letter: "ah," "nn," "duh".

An example is the phonetic value of /k/ for the letters c, k, and q.

In his view the phonetic value of the hieroglyphs was merely the commonplace, superficial part of the sign.

Eventually, certain Chinese characters were used for their phonetic value to represent Korean particles of speech and inflectional endings.

Moreover, the direction of writing in Kharosthi script is as in Aramaic, from right to left, and there is also a likeness of many signs having similar phonetic value.

The development was gradual and purely external (i.e., in the shapes of the single letters); from the internal standpoint (i.e., considering the phonetic values of the letters), there has been no development, though it must be borne in mind that for several letters (waw, ḥet, tzade, qof, shin, sin, and so forth) the exact original phonetic value is still uncertain.

Akerblad also correctly assigned phonetic values to a few of the signs.

He also believed, again correctly, that the signs recorded phonetic values.

By comparison of one sign with another, he was able to determine the phonetic values of the hieroglyphics.

The approximate phonetic values of most syllabic signs used in Linear A are known from Linear B, but the language written in Linear A remains unknown.

It is our task to find out what the language was, or what the phonetic values of the signs were, and so remove one of the unknowns".