Phonogram (linguistics)

A phonogram is a grapheme which represents a phoneme or a combination of phonemes.

Examples of phonograms are the letters of the Latin alphabet, the Japanese Kana font or the symbols of the IPA phonetic alphabet.

In contrast to phonograms logograms meaning units represent (ie morphemes or words ), while Determinative are mute signs which semantic categories are highlighted.

There are also logo phonograms and logograms phono. Thus, in the shorthand notation ' N8 ' for ' night ' the digit '8 ' at first a logogram for the word ' Eight ', and this in turn a Phonogram for the phoneme / ax /. In network jargon the number 2 is often used because it is known in English as Phonogram for the phonemes / tu :/, which in turn the homophones 'to' and 'too ' represent ( " 2young2die ").