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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.
âFor example, a vowel phoneme cannot exist without a pitch, but pitch may exist as a dimension without any linguistic properties.â âThey can distinguish between any two sounds which represent distinct phonemes in any of the world's languages.â âThe English language is an alphabetic system, meaning that our written symbols correspond to the separate sounds, or phonemes, in spoken language.â âWhereas the five classic vowel letters match the five vowel phonemes of a language like Spanish, they are insufficient to distinguish the much larger number of vowel phonemes of English.â