puhunnos
Puhunnos is a term used in linguistics to refer to the smallest meaningful unit of speech. It is essentially a phonetic segment that can distinguish one word from another. For example, the words "pat" and "bat" differ by only one puhunnos, the initial consonant sound. The set of puhunnos in a language is called its phonemic inventory.
The concept of puhunnos is crucial for understanding how languages create meaning through sound. Different languages
The identification of puhunnos is typically done through the minimal pair method. This involves finding pairs