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Phonemes, letters and allophones. A phoneme is a single unit of sound that has meaning in any language. There are 44 phonemes in English (in the standard British model), each one representing a different sound a person can make. Since there are only 26 letters in the alphabet, sometimes letter combinations need to be used to make a phoneme.
Phonemes in the history of a language. The number of phonemes (the sets of phones that occur in complementary distribution and thereby contrast with other such sets) may become larger or smaller as language changes through time. At any given time, the set of phonemes in a language is a closed set (like function words and syntactic rules, the set of phonemes is part of the limited, hard wired part of language).