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isophone vs isogloss

isogloss vs isophone

isophone and isogloss both are nouns.

Word NounAdjectiveVerbAdverb
isophone Yes No No No
isogloss Yes No No No
As nouns, isogloss is a hypernym of isophone; that is, isogloss is a word with a broader meaning than isophone:
  • isophone: linguistics, an isogloss marking off an area in which a particular feature of pronunciation is found.
  • isogloss: the locative boundary of a certain linguistic feature, such as the pronunciation of a vowel, the meaning of a word, or use of some syntactic feature.
Other hypernyms of isophone include heterogloss.
isophone (noun) isogloss (noun)
linguistics, an isogloss marking off an area in which a particular feature of pronunciation is found. the locative boundary of a certain linguistic feature, such as the pronunciation of a vowel, the meaning of a word, or use of some syntactic feature.
Difference between isophone and isogloss

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