The English language has about 40 distinct phonemes.


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A phoneme is a unit of speech sound. It is the smallest division in which sounds can be classified. These sounds are represented by letters called graphemes.

The exact number of phonemes in English depends on accents, but it is around 44. These are divided into consonant and vowel sounds.