public function phoneme($string = '', $language = 'french')
        {
            $parts      = explode(' ', $string);
            $phonemes   = array();

            foreach ($parts as $p) {
                $p = $this->partCases(Inflector::lower($p));
                $phon = $this->$language($p);

                if ($phon != ' ' && strlen($phon)) {
                    array_push($phonemes, $phon);
                }
            }

            if($this->_sort) {
                sort($phonemes);
            }

            $string = implode(' ', $phonemes);

            return $string;
        }