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phoneme

/ˈfəʊniːm/noun

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स्वनिम (भाषा की सबसे छोटी अर्थभेदक ध्वनि-इकाई)

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noun
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    [C] technical

    any one of the set of smallest units of speech in a language that make one word different from another, for example /p/ and /b/ in 'pat' and 'bat'

    स्वनिम (भाषा की सबसे छोटी अर्थभेदक ध्वनि-इकाई)

    • The words 'ship' and 'sheep' differ by a single phoneme.
    • Children learn to match letters with phonemes when they begin to read.
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General knowledge

Standard British English is usually described as having about 44 phonemes, although it has only 26 letters.

Standard British English में आमतौर पर लगभग 44 phonemes माने जाते हैं, जबकि इसमें केवल 26 letters हैं।