dialect continuum

dialect continuum

English

Noun

dialect continuum (plural dialect continuums or dialect continua)

1. (linguistics) A range of dialects that vary slightly by region, so that the further apart two regions are, the more the language differs.

Translations

a range of dialects

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 French: continuum dialectal (fr) m German: Dialektkontinuum (de) n Greek: διαλεκτικό συνεχές n (dialektikó synechés) Hungarian: dialektuskontinuum (hu), nyelvjáráskontinuum Japanese: please add this translation if you can Russian: диале́ктный конти́нуум m (dialéktnyj kontínuum) Spanish: continuo dialectal m Vietnamese: chuỗi phương ngữ, dãy phương ngữ West Frisian: dialektkontinuum n

See also

• language continuum