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Definitions

Noun

1. 1
   The process by which speech sounds are analyzed or reorganized into distinct phonemes within a language; the act, process, or result of phonemicizing. countable, uncountable
2. 2
   The act, process, or result of making a writing system phonemic. countable, uncountable

Etymology

From phonemicize + -ation.

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