isophone

noun

iso·​phone

1

: a phonetic isogloss (see isogloss sense 1)

2

: a phonetic feature shared by some but not all of the speakers of a dialect, language, or group of related languages

Word History

Etymology

International Scientific Vocabulary is- + -phone

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