phoneme

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Contents 1 English 1.1 Pronunciation 1.2 Etymology 1.3 Noun 1.3.1 Related terms 1.3.2 Translations 1.4 See also

[edit] English

[edit] Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA: /ˈfəʊniːm/, SAMPA: /"f@Uni:m/
• (US) enPR: fōn'ēm, IPA: /ˈfoʊˌniːm/, SAMPA: /"foUni:m/

• Hyphenation: pho‧neme

[edit] Etymology

Ancient Greek φώνημα (phōnēma), “‘sound’”), from φωνέω (phōneō), “‘to sound’”), from φωνή (phōnē), “‘sound’”).

[edit] Noun

phoneme (plural phonemes)

1. (linguistics) 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.

[edit] Related terms

• phonemic
• phonetic
• phonetically
• phonetics
• phonology

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[edit] See also

• chereme
• chroneme
• grapheme
• lexeme
• listeme
• morpheme
• toneme