phoneme

basic unit of phonology
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phoneme

Summary

phoneme is an emic unit[1]. phoneme draws 2,565 Wikipedia views per month (emic_unit category, ranking #1 of 1).[2]

Key Facts

  • phoneme is credited with the discovery of Mikołaj Kruszewski[3].
  • phoneme is credited with the discovery of Jan Baudouin de Courtenay[4].
  • phoneme's instance of is recorded as emic unit[5].
  • phoneme is a type of vocal sound[6].
  • phoneme's Commons category is recorded as Phonemes[7].
  • phoneme's said to be the same as is recorded as Q63974461[8].
  • phoneme's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Phonemes[9].
  • phoneme's topic has template is recorded as Template:Infobox IPA[10].
  • phoneme's Stack Exchange tag is recorded as https://stackoverflow.com/tags/phoneme[11].
  • phoneme's Stack Exchange tag is recorded as https://linguistics.stackexchange.com/tags/phonemes[12].
  • phoneme's main Wikidata property is recorded as P2587[13].
  • phoneme's equivalent class is recorded as http://purl.org/linguistics/gold/Phoneme[14].
  • phoneme's different from is recorded as mora[15].
  • phoneme's different from is recorded as syllable[16].
  • phoneme's different from is recorded as grapheme[17].
  • phoneme's different from is recorded as morpheme[18].
  • phoneme's different from is recorded as vocal sound[19].
  • phoneme's different from is recorded as allophone[20].
  • phoneme's studied by is recorded as phonology[21].
  • phoneme's on focus list of Wikimedia project is recorded as Wikipedia:List of articles all languages should have[22].
  • phoneme's on focus list of Wikimedia project is recorded as Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4[23].

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Definition and Type

phoneme's instance of is recorded as emic unit[5]. phoneme is a type of vocal sound[6].

Why It Matters

phoneme draws 2,565 Wikipedia views per month (emic_unit category, ranking #1 of 1).[2] phoneme has Wikipedia articles in 30 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[24] phoneme is known by 9 alternative names across languages and contexts.[25]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [5] . wikidata.org.
  2. [3] . Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  3. [4] . scholarly article. wikidata.org.
  4. [6] . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] . wikidata.org.
  19. [21] . wikidata.org.
  20. [22] . wikidata.org.
  21. [23] . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [24] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [25] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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  1. 9h ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-20 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Said to be the same as Q63974461
    Studied by phonology
    On focus list of wikimedia project Wikipedia:List of articles all languages should have, Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4
    Instance of
    + 9 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|7 */ [[Property:P2347]]: 21421, mv to monolingual text names on YSO statements"
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