Phoneme

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A topic known well beyond its field, found in many languages.

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Notion

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Science and technology

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What Wikipedia says

A phoneme ( FOH-neem) is a set of similar speech sounds that are perceptually regarded by the speakers of a language as a single basic sound—the smallest possible phonetic unit—that helps distinguish one word from another.

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