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isophone

British

/ ˈaɪsəˌfəʊn /

noun

linguistics an isogloss marking off an area in which a particular feature of pronunciation is found

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Etymology

Origin of isophone

C20: from iso- (as in _isogloss ) + -phone (as in _phoneme )

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