A phoneme is the smallest contrastive unit in the sound system of a language.
اصغر جزء في نظام الصوت
A phoneme is a minimal unit that serves to distinguish between meanings of words.
وحده مصغره هدفها تمييز معاني الكلمات
HOW MANY PHONEMES ARE THERE IN THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE?
Approx. 40, depending on the dialect.