phoneme

Meaning

Noun

  • 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.

Origin

  • From Ancient Greek φώνημα ("sound"), from φωνέω, from φωνή.

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