diaphoneme

Noun

 * 1)  An   unit that represents collectively the dialectal variants of a.
 * 2) * 1980, S. Noble & J.A. Fishman (trr.), M. Weinrich (auth.), P. Glasser (ed.), History of the Yiddish Language II (2008), ch. vii, pp. 467 f.:
 * The series with the long a as a point of departure…today has the diaphoneme, and to be exhaustive the diaphoneme should be rendered , 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 , for example in veynik (little) (cf. MHG wênic). In groys (big; Early Vowel O₂) (cf. MHG groȥ), Yiddish has the diaphoneme ; with the variant of Samogitia–Latvia (7.35), the symbolization will become still more complicated:.
 * The series with the long a as a point of departure…today has the diaphoneme, and to be exhaustive the diaphoneme should be rendered , 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 , for example in veynik (little) (cf. MHG wênic). In groys (big; Early Vowel O₂) (cf. MHG groȥ), Yiddish has the diaphoneme ; with the variant of Samogitia–Latvia (7.35), the symbolization will become still more complicated:.

Translations

 * Dutch: diafoneem
 * Hungarian: diafonéma
 * Russian: диафоне́ма