dialect continuum

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Noun

dialect continuum (plural dialect continuums or dialect continua)

1. (linguistics) A range of dialects that vary slightly across a geographical area, but whose differences accumulate over a certain distance.

   Synonym: dialect chain

Translations

a range of dialects

• Basque: dialekto-continuum, continuum dialektokoa
• Catalan: contínuum dialectal m, continu dialectal m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 方言連續體 / 方言连续体 (fāngyán liánxùtǐ)

• Dutch: dialectcontinuüm n
• Esperanto: please add this translation if you can
• Finnish: murrejatkumo (fi)
• French: continuum dialectal (fr) m
• Frisian:

  West Frisian: dialektkontinuum n

• German: Dialektkontinuum (de) n
• Greek: διαλεκτικό συνεχές n (dialektikó synechés)
• Hungarian: dialektuskontinuum (hu), nyelvjáráskontinuum
• Japanese: please add this translation if you can
• Polish: kontinuum dialektalne n
• Portuguese: contínuo dialetal m
• Russian: диале́ктный конти́нуум m (dialéktnyj kontínuum)
• Spanish: continuo dialectal m, contínuum dialectal m, contínuum geolectal m, complejo dialectal m, continuo geolectal m, complejo geolectal m
• Ukrainian: діале́ктний конти́нуум m (dialéktnyj kontýnuum)
• Vietnamese: chuỗi phương ngữ, dãy phương ngữ

See also

• language continuum
• macrolanguage