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? asked in Education & ReferenceWords & Wordplay · 8 months ago

What's the difference between an allograph, digraph, and a grapheme? ?

I'm super confused, because they all seem the same to me. 

If you could give me examples of each too, that would be great. 

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  • Anonymous
    8 months ago
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    Allograph-.  In linguistics, it's a variant form of a grapheme that is in complementary distribution or free variation with another form of the same grapheme, as " t " and " T " or " n " in " run " and " nn " in " runner ".

    Digraph or Digram is a pair of characters used in the orthography of a language to write either a single phoneme, or a sequence of phonemes that does not correspond to the normal values of the two characters combined.

    Grapheme is the smallest meaningful contrastive unit in a writing system.

        In linguistics, a grapheme is the smallest functional unit of a writing system. There exists two main opposing grapheme concepts. In the so called referential conception, graphemes are interpreted as the smallest units of writing that correspond with sound.

    Screen= S c r ee n

    Smell. =  S m e ll

    Graph = G r a ph

  • Anonymous
    8 months ago

    A digraph is a pair of letters that represent one sound. An allograph is differing letter sequences represent the same phoneme. A grapheme variant can acquire a separate meaning in a specialized writing system.

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