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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.
Eupedia Home > Linguistics > phonemes by language What languages in Europe have the most or least phonemes ? A phoneme is a sound, or set of similar speech sounds, which are perceived as a single distinctive sound by speakers of the language or dialect in question. For example, the c/k sounds in cat and kitten represent the English phoneme /k/. Phonemes are divided in vowels and consonants. There are also semi-consonants like /j/ and /w/, which for practical purposes will be listed as consonants here.