diaphoneme

== English == === Etymology === From dia- +‎ phoneme. === Pronunciation === (General American) IPA(key): /ˈdaɪəˌfoʊnim/, /ˌdaɪəˈfoʊnim/ (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /daɪəˈfəʊniːm/ Hyphenation: di‧a‧pho‧neme === Noun === diaphoneme (plural diaphonemes) (phonology) An abstract phonological unit that represents collectively the dialectal variants of a phoneme. 1980, S. Noble & J.A. Fishman (trr.), M. Weinrich (auth.), P. Glasser (ed.), History of the Yiddish Language II (2008), ch. vii, pp. 467f.: The series with the long a as a point of departure…today has the diaphoneme /o‖u/, and to be exhaustive the diaphoneme should be rendered /o‖u‖au‖oi/, for in western Yiddish there are also the articulations /šlaufn/ and /šloifn/ (sleep). From the point of departure of long e (Early Vowel E₂) Yiddish arrived at the diaphoneme /ei‖ai/, for example in veynik (little) (cf. MHG wênic). In groys (big; Early Vowel O₂) (cf. MHG groȥ), Yiddish has the diaphoneme /ei‖oi/; with the variant of Samogitia–Latvia (7.35), the symbolization will become still more complicated: /ei‖øu‖oi‖ou/. ==== Derived terms ==== diaphonematic diaphonemic diaphonemically diaphonemics ==== Translations ==== ==== See also ==== archiphoneme diaphone diaphonology diasystem === References === OED (2nd ed., 1989), “diaphoneme” Merriam–Webster OnLine, “di·a·pho·neme” (retrieved the 25th of February, 2014) === Further reading === diaphoneme on Wikipedia.Wikipedia