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Noun Concept
Categories: Language geography, Dialectology, Dialects, All articles needing additional references, Articles with short description
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dialect continuum  Cluster of languages  dialect area  dialect chain  dialect continua
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A dialect continuum or dialect chain is a series of language varieties spoken across some geographical area such that neighboring varieties are mutually intelligible, but the differences accumulate over distance so that widely separated varieties may not be. Wikipedia
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A dialect continuum or dialect chain is a series of language varieties spoken across some geographical area such that neighboring varieties are mutually intelligible, but the differences accumulate over distance so that widely separated varieties may not be. Wikipedia
The transition of one language to another through speech variations Wikipedia Disambiguation
Range of dialects that vary geographically Wikidata
A range of dialects that vary slightly by region, so that the further apart two regions are, the more the language differs. Wiktionary
A range of dialects. Wiktionary (translation)
IS A
languoid
HAS KIND
dialect-standard continuum
Quechua
Langue d'oil
Colorado River Numic language
variety
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HAS INSTANCE
Kichaga
Dhuwal
Beti
Bavarian
Czech–Slovak languages
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dialect continuum
Wikidata
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dialect continuum
Wiktionary
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dialect continuum
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Cluster of languages, dialect area, dialect chain, dialect continua, Dialect Continuum, dialectal continuum, Dialektkontinuum, Geographic continuum, L-complex, Language chain, Language complex, language continuum, Linguistic cluster, linguistic continuum, Transitional dialect

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