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- What are the sounds of speech?
- What are the speech sounds in English language?
- What are the 44 speech sounds in English?
- What are 44 sounds?
What are the sounds of speech?
Speech sounds are also called phonemes. A phoneme is defined as the smallest part of spoken language that makes a difference in meaning. When you clicked on the Phoneme Chart, did you notice that some phonemes are represented with single letters and some phonemes are represented with two letters?
What are the speech sounds in English language?
English is an alphabetic language. We only have 26 letters, but there are 44 speech sounds (phonemes). This includes 20 vowel sounds, and 24 consonant sounds.
What are the 44 speech sounds in English?
Consonants
| Phoneme | IPA Symbol | Graphemes |
|---|---|---|
| 6 | dʒ | j, ge, g, dge, di, gg |
| 7 | k | k, c, ch, cc, lk, qu ,q(u), ck, x |
| 8 | l | l, ll |
| 9 | m | m, mm, mb, mn, lm |
What are 44 sounds?
Note that the 44 sounds (phonemes) have multiple spellings (graphemes) and only the most common ones have been provided in this summary.
- 20 Vowel Sounds. 6 Short Vowels. a. e. i. o. u. oo u. cat. leg. sit. top. rub. book. put. 5 Long Vowels. ai ay. ee ea. ie igh. oe ow. oo ue. paid. tray. bee. beat. pie. high. toe. flow. moon. ...
- 24 Consonant Sounds.
