äänenteiden
Äänneteiden is a term used in linguistics to refer to the smallest units of sound that can distinguish meaning in a language. These are not the same as letters, which represent sounds in written language. For example, in English, the sounds /p/ and /b/ are phonemes because they can change the meaning of a word, such as "pat" versus "bat." Similarly, the sounds /i/ and /e/ are phonemes because they distinguish words like "bit" and "bet."
The concept of the phoneme is central to phonology, the study of sound systems in languages. Phonemes
Identifying phonemes in a language involves finding minimal pairs, which are pairs of words that differ by