The Forty Four Phonemes - Sounds of a Literacy Foundation

Grouped alphabetically they are:

• s, a, t, i, p, n
• c k,e,h,r,m,d
• g,o,u,l,f,b
• ai,j,oa,ie,ee,or
• z,w,ng,v,short-oo, long-oo
• y,x,ch,sh,voiced th, unvoiced th
• qu,ou,oi,ue,er,ar

These 44 Phonemes comprise all of the sounds in the English Language.

Phoneme-grapheme correspondences are used to identify the sounds in spoken language. The decoded sequence of sounds can then be translated into the written representation of the spoken words.