. . "In phonology, an allophone (/\u02C8\u00E6l\u0259fo\u028An/; from the Greek: \u1F04\u03BB\u03BB\u03BF\u03C2, \u00E1llos, \"other\" and \u03C6\u03C9\u03BD\u03AE, ph\u014Dn\u0113, \"voice, sound\") is one of a set of multiple possible spoken sounds (or phones) or signs used to pronounce a single phoneme in a particular language. For example, [p\u02B0] (as in pin) and [p] (as in spin) are allophones for the phoneme /p/ in the English language."@en .