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Phoneme vs Multiphonemic - What's the difference?

phoneme | multiphonemic |

As a noun phoneme

is .

As an adjective multiphonemic is

consisting of, or pertaining to, more than one phoneme.

phoneme

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • An indivisible unit of sound in a given language. A phoneme is an abstraction of the physical speech sounds (phones) and may encompass several different phones.
  • Derived terms

    * * * phonemic * phonemical * phonemically * phonemicist * phonemics

    See also

    * chereme * chroneme * grammeme * grapheme * lemma * lexeme * listeme * morpheme * sememe * toneme

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    multiphonemic

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Consisting of, or pertaining to, more than one phoneme.