Letter (alphabet) - Wikipedia

Letter (alphabet)

In a writing system, a letter is a grapheme that generally corresponds to a phoneme —the smallest functional unit of speech—though there is rarely total one-to-one correspondence between the two. An alphabet is a writing system that uses letters.1

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Footnotes

  1. Rogers (2005), p. 13–14.