Topic: LINGUISTICS
| Date: | 1800-1900 |
| Language: | French |
| Origin: | phonème, from Greek phonema 'speech sound' |
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pho‧neme
[countable] technical
[countable] technicalSL the smallest unit of speech that can be used to make one word different from another word, such as the 'b' and the 'p' in 'big' and 'pig'
—phonemic
adjective
adjective —phonemically
adverb
adverb