The phonological differences between the dialects are relatively small; the phonemic system of the northern dialect is explained below.

It is a purely phonemic system, using exactly one symbol for each phoneme, and marking pitch accent using diacritics.

Later others revised Agricola's work, striving for a more phonemic system.

Tamazight has a phonemic three-vowel system, but also has numerous words without vowels.

A phonemic system would therefore not be universal.

This chapter was intended to show that there are many ways of analysing the English phonemic system, each with its own advantages and disadvantages.

The phonemic system of such accents is different from that of RP.

To solve this issue of deaf literacy, he devised a phonemic system to render English visually rather than acoustically.

While phonemic systems describe the speech of a single variety, diaphonemic systems can reflect the contrasts that aren't made by all varieties being represented.

Allophones, which phonemic systems don't account for, may be important in the process of interference and interlingual identifications.