Chereme

The chereme (From the Greek χέρι, "hand"), is a term for the basic unit of signed communication. It is functionally equivalent to the phonemes of spoken languages, and has been replaced by that term in the academic literature.

See also

• Morpheme
• Grapheme
• Phoneme

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