Mora

Rarity: Uncommon

A topic a little better known than average, read and translated beyond its own country.

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What Wikipedia says

In linguistics, a mora (pl. morae or moras; often symbolized μ) is the smallest unit of timing, equal to or shorter than a syllable, which theoretically or perceptually exists in some spoken languages in which phonetic length (such as vowel length) matters significantly.

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