Homophon

of these articles describes the Homophon in the language, for the meaning in the music sees homophony.

Homophone and/or. - hair dryers (of Greek ομόφωνο - the directly sounding, unanimous) are words, which have different meanings with equivalent discussion.However there are different definitions of the term.

Examples of Homophone in the Korean one. Above the discussion in Hangeul - letters, under it nine Homophone, spoken “sudo”, with the same Hangeul indications to be written and itself only by the different Chinese Hanja - characterto differentiate leave, which are used likewise in the Korean one.

After Alfred Raab (Homophone of the German language. Nuremberg: , 1971) words with same way of writing rank rab publishing house not among the Homophonen. After Oxford “Concise Dictionary OF Linguistics” count also words of different meaningwith same way of writing to the Homophonen. With same way of writing they are Homographen at the same time.

One can differentiate between polyseme and homonyms Homophone.

As Paronyme can lead also Homophone to mistakes. That occurs however rarely. The sense of the Homophone resultsin the verbal language from the connection. With respect to the writing language one differentiates it if necessary by different ways of writing.

examples of Homophone in German

with the Homophonen is to be considered: Regionally they cannot be expressed also homophon. For example words become also“A” and “e” regionally differently expressed.

examples of Homophone in English

examples of Homophone in the French

• • sot (fool) - saut (jump) - sceau (seals) - seau (buckets)
  • its (bosoms) - seing (possession) - sain (healthy) - saint (holy)

Homophone in East Asian languages

particularly richly at Homophonen e.g. are. the Japanese and Chinese language.

A poem of Zhao Yuanrenski consists “varied in the four tones and is even Chinese only on the basis the characters understandably only of the syllable in pinyin „.

text

“石室詩士施氏, 嗜獅, 誓食十獅. 氏時時適市視獅. 十時, 適十獅適市. 是時, 適施氏適市.”

- Zhao Yuanren: 施氏食獅史

text in pinyin

Shíshì shīshì Shī Shì, shì shī, shì shí shí shī.

Shì shíshí shì shì shì shī.

Shí shí, shì shí shī shì shì.

Shì shí, shì Shī Shì shì shì.

translation

In a stone cave sat the poet ski ski, which ate gladly lions and decided; to eat ten of it.

It often went to the market, in order to hold to lion look out.

A daily, at ten o'clock, ten lions came on the market.

Exactly to this time also ski ski came.

literature

• Fischer, Walter: English Homophone, Munich: Hueber, 3. Edition 1970, 87 sides, no ISBN
• Raab, Alfred: Homophone of the German language, 1. Edition, Nuremberg: Rab publishing house, 1971, 19 sides, IDN: 730135721(German library - German national bibliography)
• Riehme, Joachim: Equivalent spoken - differently written: to confounding similar words and its correct posting, Leipzig: Bibliographic Institut, 2. Aufl. to 1990, 118 sides, ISBN 3-323-00172-9

see also

error linguistics, List of wrong friends