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How Many Sounds Are There In English?

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How Many Sounds Are There In English? English has 44 sounds but only 26 letters to represent them. Hence various combinations of letters are used to represent these sounds; sometimes the same letter (or a combination of letters) may represent different sounds. For example, the letter ‘c’ represents two different sounds as shown below. What

How Many Types Of Sounds Do We Have?

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How Many Types Of Sounds Do We Have? Despite there being just 26 letters in the English language there are approximately 44 unique sounds, also known as phonemes. The 44 sounds help distinguish one word or meaning from another. Various letters and letter combinations known as graphemes are used to represent the sounds. How many