Chereme

The chereme (From the Greek χέρι, "hand"), is an obsolete term for the basic unit of signed communication. It is now recognized as being cognitively equivalent to the phonemes of spoken languages, and has been replaced by that term in the academic literature.

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• Morpheme
• Grapheme
• Phoneme

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Phoneme: In oral language, a phoneme is the theoretical basic unit of sound that can be used to distinguish words or morphemes; in sign language, it is a similarly basic unit of hand shape, motion, position, or facial expression. (Formerly termed chereme.) That is, changing a phoneme in a word produces eithe...