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Phoneme

Phoneme Meaning & Definition
Phoneme Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Phoneme?

[n] (linguistics) one of a small set of speech sounds that are distinguished by the speakers of a particular language

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See Also | allophone | phone | sound | speech sound

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