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Noun: isophone
  1. Linguistics, an isogloss marking off an area in which a particular feature of pronunciation is found.
    "To the north of the isophone speakers have a tendency to pronounce triphthongs."

Derived forms: isophones

Type of: heterogloss, isogloss

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