phoneme

Noun
  1. (linguistics) one of a small set of speech sounds that are distinguished by the speakers of a particular language (synset 107126419)
    referred to in: linguistics - the scientific study of language
    is a type of: phone, sound, speech sound - (phonetics) an individual sound unit of speech without concern as to whether or not it is a phoneme of some language
    subtypes: allophone - (linguistics) any of various acoustically different forms of the same phoneme

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