English edit

Etymology edit

phonemic +‎ -ize

Verb edit

phonemicize (third-person singular simple present phonemicizes, present participle phonemicizing, simple past and past participle phonemicized)

  1. (transitive, linguistics) To represent as a phoneme or series of phonemes.
  2. (intransitive, linguistics) To become phonemic as opposed to allophonic.