fonema

Definitions of fonema
  1. noun
    (linguistics) one of a small set of speech sounds that are distinguished by the speakers of a particular language
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    types:
    alófono
    (linguistics) any of various acoustically different forms of the same phoneme
    type of:
    sonido
    (phonetics) an individual sound unit of speech without concern as to whether or not it is a phoneme of some language
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