A dialect continuum or dialect chain is a series of language varieties spoken across some geographical area such that neighboring varieties are mutually...

between a language and a dialect is not clear-cut and simple: in many areas there is a dialect continuum, with transitional dialects and languages. Further...

languages constitute a dialect continuum. Serbian, Croatian, Bosnian, and Montenegrin constitute a single dialect within this continuum. South Slavic Eastern...

"Hindi–Urdu Belt" or "Hindustani Belt". Hindi is part of the Indo-Aryan dialect continuum that lies within the cultural Hindi Belt in the northern plains of...

A post-creole continuum (or simply creole continuum) is a dialect continuum of varieties of a creole language between those most and least similar to...

the geographical spread of the High German consonant shift, and the dialect continuum that connects German to the neighboring varieties of Low Franconian...

coherent set of linguistic criteria for distinguishing languages in a dialect continuum. There is no single criterion for how much knowledge is sufficient...

syllabics. Cree (/kriː/ KREE; also known as Cree–Montagnais–Naskapi) is a dialect continuum of Algonquian languages spoken by approximately 86,475 indigenous...

geographically close to one another in a dialect continuum. The term is applied most often to regional speech patterns, but a dialect may also be defined by other...

language is largely uncommon among its native speakers, as it forms a dialect continuum of mutually intelligible varieties and therefore it is primarily referred...