Phonemics

//fəˈniː.mɪks// noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    The study of phonemes and their written representations. uncountable
  2. 2
    the study of the sound system of a given language and the analysis and classification of its phonemes wordnet

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phonologyphonology

Etymology

From phoneme + -ics.

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