Editing Phone (phonetics) (section)

== Connection to orthography ==
Whether a direct mapping between phonemes and characters is achieved depends on the type of orthography used. Phonological orthographies like the [[Indonesian Spelling System|Indonesian orthography]] tend to have one-to-one mappings of phonemes to characters, whereas alphabetic orthographies like the [[English orthography]] tend to try to have direct mappings, but often end up mapping one phoneme to multiple characters.

In the examples above the characters enclosed in square brackets: "pʰ" and "p" are [[International Phonetic Alphabet|IPA]] representations of phones. The IPA unlike English and Indonesian is not a practical orthography and is used by linguists to obtain [[Phonetic transcription|phonetic transcriptions]] of words in spoken languages and is therefore a strongly phonetically spelled system by design.