I was someone who just stumbled onto this from my Everything page and doesn't know much about linguistics, what's a grapheme? Is that like a letter?
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Sorry for using a bit more "technical" term unnecessarily; I could've simply said "letter" instead. That said:
A grapheme is the smallest unit capable of conveying meaning in a writing system. In an alphabet, that typically includes the letters plus di/tri/polygraphs; for example in the English version of the Latin alphabet ⟨s⟩, ⟨h⟩ and ⟨sh⟩ are three different graphemes.
Here are the news in Spanish, for anyone interested
Gonna have to read and digest this later, with this level of excitement I think I could only handle 1 single new right now.