Noun:

নির্দিষ্ট কোনো ভাষার যে ধ্বনিগুচ্ছকে একই ধ্বনির বিভিন্ন রূপ বলিয়া মনে হয়,

phonemes's Usage Examples:

allophones for the phoneme /t/, while these two are considered to be different phonemes in some languages such as Thai and Hindi.

time, the study of phonology only related to the study of the systems of phonemes in spoken languages.

English word through consists of three phonemes: the initial "th" sound, the "r" sound, and a vowel sound.

The phonemes in this and many other English words.

smallest units of writing that correspond with sounds (more accurately phonemes).

That is the term's primary use in phonology: to describe phonemes; while in phonetics its primary use is to describe phones.

but phonemes can be discussed only in reference to specific languages.

For example, the English words kid and kit end with two distinct phonemes, /d/.

They are used to demonstrate that two phones are two separate phonemes in the language.

Vedas are composed of words (shabda) and the words are composed of phonemes, the phonemes being eternal, the Vedas are also eternal.

Tigrinya has a fairly typical set of phonemes for an Ethiopian Semitic language.

concerned with matters of spelling, and in particular the relationship between phonemes and graphemes in a language.

alters the distribution of phonemes in a language.

In other words, a language develops a new system of oppositions among its phonemes.

Modern Standard Arabic has 28 consonant phonemes and 6 vowel phonemes or 8 vowels in most modern dialects.

All phonemes contrast between "emphatic" (pharyngealized).

primarily with modern scholarship's best reconstruction of Classical Latin's phonemes (phonology) and the pronunciation and spelling used by educated people.

total of vowel phonemes is five.

However, if the long vowels and diphthongs are treated as separate, unit phonemes, there are 25 vowel phonemes.

basic written symbols or graphemes (called letters) that represent the phonemes of certain spoken languages.

There are a total of 31 phonemes in Asuri, made up of twenty-six "segmental" and five "supra-segmental" phonemes.

Synonyms:

sound; allophone; phone; speech sound;

Antonyms:

unfit; broken; unsound; vowel; consonant;