Phoneme
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An indivisible unit of sound in a given language. A phoneme is an abstraction of the physical speech sounds (phones) and may encompass several different phones.
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See also
- Alphabetic principle
- Alternation (linguistics)
- Complementary distribution
- Diaphoneme
- Diphone
- Emic and etic
- Free variation
- Initial-stress-derived noun
- Minimal pair
- Morphophonology
- Phone
- Phonemic orthography
- Phonology
- Phonological change
- Phonotactics
- Sphoṭa
- Toneme
- Triphone
- Viseme
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