Lynguistykon: Phonemes

Phonemes are (in essence) sounds. They are used for audible communication, in language. In many languages, they are tied to letters on a letter-by-letter and/or a lettergroup-by-lettergroup basis, so that each letter or a certain combination of letters corresponds to a specific sound. Note that in a language, the same letter/lettergroup may be communicated via different phonemes by different speakers (i.e. varying by dialect). The same may be true of letters/lettergroups that are held in common by more than one language; even if they may be represented visually in the same way among the languages, they may be communicated differently phonetically. (Phoneme audios found within the Lynguistykon therefore represent the pronunciation according to that speaker's dialect - not necessarily all the ways a phoneme is pronounced.)