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vowel system

vowel system

noun Linguistics.
the vowel sounds of a language, especially when considered as forming an interrelated and interacting group.


Origin:
1870–75
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Vowel system is always a great word to know.
So is allomorph. Does it mean:
one of the alternate contextually determined phonological shapes of a morpheme; ox, oxen
the study of the rules for the formation of grammatical sentences in a language
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vowel system

noun
the system of vowels used in a particular language 
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