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# allophone

noun

«allophone» in the English dictionary: in Jewish tradition — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## In Jewish tradition

Used by scholars to explain how a Hebrew letter could be pronounced in two ways, such as hard and soft.

**Interpretation.** Sefer Yetzirah's "double" letters, which have a hard and a soft sound, are sometimes explained this way.

### Meaning

One of the different ways of saying the same speech sound in a language, which does not change the meaning of a word. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/A/allophone/#m1)

### Note

A record of the Judaism dictionary, written from the corpus.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «allophone» in the Judaism dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/A/allophone/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«allophone» in the Judaism dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/judaism/w/allophone.html) on Mova free.