Phoneme

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A phoneme is any of the units of sound (speech) which distinguish between one word and another.[1] In most English accents there are about 24 consonantal phonemes and 20 vowel phonemes in the language, but only 26 letters.

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  1. ↑ Concise Oxford English dictionary


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