substitution of one phoneme, /n/, for another phoneme, /ŋ/. Two words like this that differ in meaning through the contrast of a single phoneme form a minimal...

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(as in top [ˈtʰɒp]) are allophones for the phoneme /t/, while these two are considered to be different phonemes in some languages such as Central Thai. Similarly...

graphemes (written symbols) correspond consistently to the language's phonemes (the smallest units of speech that can differentiate words). Natural languages...

only a limited guide to the phonology of other dialects of English. A phoneme of a language or dialect is an abstraction of a speech sound or of a group...

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which the vocal folds vibrate, its primary use in phonetics to describe phonemes, which are particular speech sounds. It can also refer to a classification...

transcription delimiters. Assimilation is a sound change in which some phonemes (typically consonants or vowels) change to become more similar to other...

meanings of words. In contrast, a phoneme is a speech sound in a given language that, if swapped with another phoneme, could change one word to another...

Elder Futhark runic alphabet. Its transliteration is z, understood as a phoneme of the Proto-Germanic language, the terminal *z continuing Proto-Indo-European...

time, the study of phonology related only to the study of the systems of phonemes in spoken languages, but may now relate to any linguistic analysis either:...

on (1) the phoneme /θ/, (2) the debuccalization of syllable-final /s/, (3) the sound of the spelled ⟨s⟩, (4) and the phoneme /ʎ/. The phoneme /θ/ (spelled...

This article contains phonetic transcriptions in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA). For an introductory guide on IPA symbols, see Help:IPA. For...

consonant phonemes and 6 vowel phonemes. All phonemes contrast between "emphatic" (pharyngealized) consonants and non-emphatic ones. Some of these phonemes have...

Ancient Greek γράφω (gráphō) 'write' and the suffix -eme by analogy with phoneme and other names of emic units. The study of graphemes is called graphemics...

speech into phonemes (or segmental phonemes), which correspond fairly well to phonetic segments of the analysed speech. The segmental phonemes of sign language...

instead. There are several kinds of zero: In phonetics and phonology, a null phoneme or zero phone indicates that no phone is produced where one might be expected...

writing system of left-to-right. The Canaanite grapheme represented the /g/ phoneme in the Canaanite language, and as such is cognate with gimel ג of the Hebrew...

logographies. Alphabets use symbols called letters that correspond to spoken phonemes. Abjads only have letters for consonants, while pure alphabets have letters...

in which the distribution of phonemes changes by either addition of new phonemes or a reorganization of existing phonemes. Mergers and splits are types...

total of vowel phonemes is five. However, if the long vowels and diphthongs are treated as separate, unit phonemes, there are 25 vowel phonemes. The short...

particular sounds in a spoken language. Specifically, letters correspond to phonemes, the categories of sounds that can distinguish one word from another in...

Etruscan and Latin had /h/ as a phoneme, almost all Romance languages lost the sound—Romanian later re-borrowed the /h/ phoneme from its neighbouring Slavic...

: 10–16  A phoneme cannot occur in isolation, although a morpheme may consist of only one phoneme.: 6  There are twelve dynamic phonemes, working similarly...

tooth (שנא) and represented the phoneme /ʃ/ via the acrophonic principle. Ancient Greek did not have a /ʃ/ "sh" phoneme, so the derived Greek letter Sigma...

pronounced. The modern phoneme /ʒ/ was not documented as occurring until the second half of the 17th century. Likely, that phoneme in a word like vision...

languages is sorted by a partial count of phonemes (generally ignoring tone, stress and diphthongs). Estimates of phoneme-inventory size can differ radically...

inventory of phonemes (i.e. speech sounds that distinguish meaning), and phonetic variation consists in differences in pronunciation of the phonemes. This overview...

Shiksha (Sanskrit: शिक्षा, IAST: śikṣā) is a Sanskrit word, which means "instruction, lesson, learning, study of skill". It also refers to one of the six...