phoneme

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See also Phoneme, and phonème

English

Etymology

From Ancient Greek φώνημα (phōnēma), from φωνέω (phōneō), from φωνή (phōnē).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA: /ˈfəʊniːm/, X-SAMPA: /"f@Uni:m/
• (US) enPR: fōn'ēm, IPA: /ˈfoʊˌnim/, X-SAMPA: /"foU%nim/

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• Hyphenation: pho‧neme

Noun

phoneme (plural phonemes)

1. (linguistics) An indivisible unit of sound in a given language. A phoneme is an abstraction of the physical speech sounds (phones) and may encompass several different phones.

Derived terms

• phonemic
• phonemical
• phonemically
• phonemicist
• phonemics

Related terms

allophone allophonic allophonical allophonically allophonics diaphone diaphoneme diaphonemic diaphonemical diaphonemically diaphonemics

diaphonic diaphonical diaphonically diaphonics diaphonologic diaphonological diaphonologically diaphonology phone phonetic phonetical

phonetically phonetics phonic phonical phonically phonics phonologic phonological phonologically phonologist phonology

Translations

indivisible unit of sound

• Armenian: հնչույթ (hy) (hnčuyt’)
• Catalan: fonema (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 音素 (cmn) (yīnsù)

• Czech: foném (cs) m
• Danish: fonem (da) n
• Dutch: foneem (nl) n
• Estonian: häälik (et)
• Finnish: foneemi (fi)
• French: phonème (fr) m
• Galician: fonema (gl) m
• German: Phonem (de) n
• Greek: φώνημα (el) (fónima) n
• Icelandic: fónem (is) n
• Italian: fonema (it) m
• Japanese: 音素 (ja) (おんそ, onso)

• Korean: 표음 (ko) (pyo-eum)
• Latin: phōnēma (la) f
• Persian: واج (fa) (vaj)
• Polish: fonem (pl) m
• Portuguese: fonema (pt) m
• Russian: фонема (ru) (fonéma) f
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: фо̀не̄м (sh) m

  Roman: fònēm (sh) m

• Sindhi: وايوم (sd) (viome) f
• Sorbian:

  Lower Sorbian: fonem m

  Upper Sorbian: fonem (hsb) m

• Spanish: fonema (es) m
• Swedish: fonem (sv) n

See also

• chereme
• chroneme
• grammeme
• grapheme
• lemma
• lexeme
• listeme
• morpheme
• sememe
• toneme

Anagrams

• phenome