Letter

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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

In a writing system, a letter is a grapheme that generally corresponds to a phoneme—the smallest functional unit of speech—though there is rarely total one-to-one correspondence between the two. An alphabet is a writing system that uses letters.

Excerpt from the Wikipedia article “Letter (alphabet)”, under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license. Read the article on Wikipedia

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