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== Metaphone of other languages == Metaphone is useful for [[List of dialects of English|English variants]] and other languages, having been preferred to [[Soundex]] in several [[Indo-European]] languages. On the other hand, rough phonetic encoding causes language dependency — or, in a language variant, average language-speaker dependency — mainly for non-English variants. Perhaps the first example of stable adaptation of non-English metaphone was [[Brazilian Portuguese]]: it [https://web.archive.org/web/20110420062611/http://www2.varzeapaulista.sp.gov.br/metaphone/ originated in ~2008] as a database solution in [[Várzea Paulista]] municipality of Brazil, and it evolved to the [https://github.com/carlosjordao/metaphone-ptbr current <code>metaphone-ptbr</code> algorithm].
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