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Phoneme

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

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plural
Phonemes
possessive
Phoneme's
pluralpossessive
Phonemes'

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

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