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phoneme

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Main Entry:
pho·neme 
          Listen to the pronunciation of phoneme
Pronunciation:
\ˈfō-ˌnēm\
Function:
noun
Etymology:
French phonème, from Greek phōnēmat-, phōnēma speech sound, utterance, from phōnein to sound
Date:
1896
: any of the abstract units of the phonetic system of a language that correspond to a set of similar speech sounds (as the velar \k\ of cool and the palatal \k\ of keel) which are perceived to be a single distinctive sound in the language


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