geolinguistics
Sign in to saveGeolinguistics is a branch of linguistics and of language geography, a branch of human geography. As a branch of linguistics, it includes dialectology and linguistic areal features.
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Geolinguistics is a branch of linguistics and of language geography, a branch of human geography. As a branch of linguistics, it includes dialectology and linguistic areal features.
One academic tradition sees dialect geography, language geography, and linguistic geography as geolinguistics. This identification of geolinguistics with linguistic map-making appears across a range of languages, including Chinese, French, Japanese, Russian and Spanish. In German, in addition to an identification of geolinguistics with the terms Sprachgeographie (language geography) and Dialektgeographie (dialect geography), the term Areallinguistik (areal linguistics) appears as also being synonymous.
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