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- Dialect_continuum abstract "A dialect continuum or dialect area was defined by Leonard Bloomfield as a range of dialects spoken across some geographical area that differ only slightly between neighboring areas, but as one travels in any direction, these differences accumulate in such a way that speakers from opposite ends of the continuum are no longer mutually intelligible. (This is analogous to a ring species in evolutionary biology.) The lines that can be drawn between areas that differ with respect to any feature of language are called isoglosses.According to the abstand and ausbau languages paradigm, these dialects can be considered abstand languages (i.e., as stand-alone languages by linguistic distance). However, they can be seen as dialects of a single language, provided that a common standard language exists through which communication is possible (a Dachsprache).In sociolinguistics, a language continuum is said to exist when two or more different languages or dialects merge into each other without a definable boundary. This happens, for example, across large parts of India or the Maghreb. Historically, it also happened in various parts of Europe, for example in a line stretching from Portuguese to Walloon (in Belgium); from Portuguese to the southern Italian dialects; and between German and Dutch. Within the last 100 years or so, however, the increasing dominance of nation-states and their standard languages has been steadily eliminating the non-standard dialects of which these language continua were formed, making the boundaries ever more abrupt and well-defined.In some cases, controversy often arises regarding the question of which particular dialect an individual is using – or even to which language a particular dialect belongs. To varying degrees, such cases involve sociolects and/or the distinctions are subjective rather than having any discernible basis in objective linguistics. They are generally found when two or more distinct ethnicities have long histories of shared linguistic development and geographic residence, but nevertheless regard themselves, and/or each other, as speaking different dialects or languages. This occurs as a result of divisions related to religion, political ideology, nationalism or regionalism, and/or other dimensions of historical identity. In such cases, the dialects concerned may have emerged, or re-emerged, as a result of splits in extinct or declining standard languages.Examples of controversies include regions such as Kashmir, in which local Muslims usually regard their language as Urdu, while Hindus regard the same speech as Hindi. Similar complications arise across much of the former Yugoslavia, in which Bosniaks, Croats, Montenegrins and Serbs may appear to speak the very same dialect. Perhaps the prime example is the Shtokavian dialect, which is officially regarded by Croats as Croatian, Bosniaks as Bosnian, Montenegrins as Montenegrin, and Serbs as Serbian.".
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- Dialect_continuum wikiPageWikiLink Abstand_and_ausbau_languages.
- Dialect_continuum wikiPageWikiLink Afghanistan.
- Dialect_continuum wikiPageWikiLink Africa.
- Dialect_continuum wikiPageWikiLink Albania.
- Dialect_continuum wikiPageWikiLink Alberta.
- Dialect_continuum wikiPageWikiLink Algonquian_languages.
- Dialect_continuum wikiPageWikiLink Algonquin_language.
- Dialect_continuum wikiPageWikiLink Alqosh.
- Dialect_continuum wikiPageWikiLink Arabian_Peninsula.
- Dialect_continuum wikiPageWikiLink Arabic.
- Dialect_continuum wikiPageWikiLink Aragonese_language.
- Dialect_continuum wikiPageWikiLink Assam_Valley.
- Dialect_continuum wikiPageWikiLink Assamese_language.
- Dialect_continuum wikiPageWikiLink Assyrian_Neo-Aramaic.
- Dialect_continuum wikiPageWikiLink Assyrian_tribes.
- Dialect_continuum wikiPageWikiLink Asturian_language.
- Dialect_continuum wikiPageWikiLink Atikamekw_language.
- Dialect_continuum wikiPageWikiLink Austria.
- Dialect_continuum wikiPageWikiLink Azerbaijan.
- Dialect_continuum wikiPageWikiLink Azerbaijani_language.
- Dialect_continuum wikiPageWikiLink Azerbaijanis.
- Dialect_continuum wikiPageWikiLink Azeri.
- Dialect_continuum wikiPageWikiLink Balkan_Gagauz_Turkish.
- Dialect_continuum wikiPageWikiLink Balkan_Gagauz_Turkish_language.
- Dialect_continuum wikiPageWikiLink Balkans.
- Dialect_continuum wikiPageWikiLink Barwari.
- Dialect_continuum wikiPageWikiLink Batnaya.
- Dialect_continuum wikiPageWikiLink Baz,_Turkey.
- Dialect_continuum wikiPageWikiLink Belarusian_language.
- Dialect_continuum wikiPageWikiLink Belgium.
- Dialect_continuum wikiPageWikiLink Bengali_language.
- Dialect_continuum wikiPageWikiLink Bihar.
- Dialect_continuum wikiPageWikiLink Bokmål.
- Dialect_continuum wikiPageWikiLink Bosnia_and_Herzegovina.
- Dialect_continuum wikiPageWikiLink Bosniaks.
- Dialect_continuum wikiPageWikiLink Bosnian_language.
- Dialect_continuum wikiPageWikiLink Brahmaputra_Valley.
- Dialect_continuum wikiPageWikiLink British_Columbia.
- Dialect_continuum wikiPageWikiLink Bulgaria.
- Dialect_continuum wikiPageWikiLink Bulgarian_language.
- Dialect_continuum wikiPageWikiLink Canada.
- Dialect_continuum wikiPageWikiLink Cantonese.
- Dialect_continuum wikiPageWikiLink Catalan_Language.
- Dialect_continuum wikiPageWikiLink Catalan_language.
- Dialect_continuum wikiPageWikiLink Category:Dialects.
- Dialect_continuum wikiPageWikiLink Category:Language_comparison.
- Dialect_continuum wikiPageWikiLink Category:Language_versus_dialect.
- Dialect_continuum wikiPageWikiLink Central_Asia.
- Dialect_continuum wikiPageWikiLink Central_Ojibwa_language.
- Dialect_continuum wikiPageWikiLink Chakavian_dialect.
- Dialect_continuum wikiPageWikiLink Chaldean_Neo-Aramaic.
- Dialect_continuum wikiPageWikiLink Chinese_written_language.
- Dialect_continuum wikiPageWikiLink Chippewa_language.
- Dialect_continuum wikiPageWikiLink Chuvash_language.
- Dialect_continuum wikiPageWikiLink Chuvashia.
- Dialect_continuum wikiPageWikiLink Chuvashia_Republic.
- Dialect_continuum wikiPageWikiLink Classical_Arabic.
- Dialect_continuum wikiPageWikiLink Classical_Chinese.
- Dialect_continuum wikiPageWikiLink Comparison_of_standard_Bosnian,_Croatian_and_Serbian.
- Dialect_continuum wikiPageWikiLink Cree_language.
- Dialect_continuum wikiPageWikiLink Croatia.
- Dialect_continuum wikiPageWikiLink Croatian_language.
- Dialect_continuum wikiPageWikiLink Croats.
- Dialect_continuum wikiPageWikiLink Czech_language.
- Dialect_continuum wikiPageWikiLink Dachsprache.
- Dialect_continuum wikiPageWikiLink Danish_language.
- Dialect_continuum wikiPageWikiLink Dari_(Eastern_Persian).
- Dialect_continuum wikiPageWikiLink Dari_language.
- Dialect_continuum wikiPageWikiLink Delhi.
- Dialect_continuum wikiPageWikiLink Dialect.
- Dialect_continuum wikiPageWikiLink Dialect_levelling.
- Dialect_continuum wikiPageWikiLink Dialectometry.
- Dialect_continuum wikiPageWikiLink Dialects.
- Dialect_continuum wikiPageWikiLink Diaspora.
- Dialect_continuum wikiPageWikiLink Diasystem.
- Dialect_continuum wikiPageWikiLink Differences_between_Serbo-Croatian_standard_varieties.
- Dialect_continuum wikiPageWikiLink Diglossia.
- Dialect_continuum wikiPageWikiLink Dolgan_language.
- Dialect_continuum wikiPageWikiLink Dutch_language.
- Dialect_continuum wikiPageWikiLink East_Cree.
- Dialect_continuum wikiPageWikiLink East_Slavic_languages.
- Dialect_continuum wikiPageWikiLink Eastern_Ojibwa_language.
- Dialect_continuum wikiPageWikiLink Eastern_Slavic_languages.
- Dialect_continuum wikiPageWikiLink Egypt.
- Dialect_continuum wikiPageWikiLink Elfdalian.
- Dialect_continuum wikiPageWikiLink Elfdalian_language.
- Dialect_continuum wikiPageWikiLink Ethnic_group.
- Dialect_continuum wikiPageWikiLink Ethnicity.
- Dialect_continuum wikiPageWikiLink Faroese_language.
- Dialect_continuum wikiPageWikiLink Fertile_Crescent.
- Dialect_continuum wikiPageWikiLink Finland_Swedish.
- Dialect_continuum wikiPageWikiLink Former_Yugoslavia.
- Dialect_continuum wikiPageWikiLink Franco-Provençal_language.
- Dialect_continuum wikiPageWikiLink French_language.
- Dialect_continuum wikiPageWikiLink Frisian_languages.