See Also: diaphoneme(dictionary)

diaphoneme (iou)



diaphoneme noun. M20.
[from DIA-1 + PHONEME.]
Linguistics. A phonemic unit of a language comprising a set of systematically corresponding forms from all its dialects. Also, each dialectal variant of such a set.
diapho'nemic adjective M20.
diapho'nemically adverb M20.