diaphone

Noun

 * 1) A kind of organ pipe.
 * 2) A sound signal which produces sound by means of a slotted piston moved back and forth by compressed air.

Translations

 * Russian:

Etymology 2
From (i.e., dia(lect) + phone).

Noun

 * 1)  A particular dialectal variant of a phoneme; all the dialectal variants of a phoneme, considered as a whole.

Quotations

 * 1929: F. W. Taylor, the Orthography of African Languages (in Journal of the Royal African Society)
 * I may read “gas” as “gas,” and you as “gahs”; you may say “aspect” and I may say “ahspect.” Such diaphones, as they are called in phonetics, must always be spelled in but one way only;

Translations

 * French:
 * German: Diaphon