A sprachbund (/ˈsprɑːkbʊnd/, from German: Sprachbund [ˈʃpʁaːxbʊnt] , lit. 'language federation'), also known as a linguistic area, area of linguistic convergence...
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The Balkan sprachbund or Balkan language area is an ensemble of areal features—similarities in grammar, syntax, vocabulary and phonology—among the languages...
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Language family (section Sprachbund)
to identify and evaluate genetic relations in linguistic linkages. A sprachbund is a geographic area having several languages that feature common linguistic...
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Standard Average European (redirect from Standard Average European Sprachbund)
which do not share these similarities, in essence creating a continental sprachbund. His intention was to argue that the disproportionate amount of SAE-specific...
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The Qinghai–Gansu sprachbund or Amdo sprachbund is a sprachbund in the plateau traversed by the upper Yellow River, including northeastern Qinghai and...
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Altaic languages (section The Sprachbund hypothesis)
the Altaic languages is now generally accepted to be the result of a sprachbund rather than common ancestry, with the languages showing influence from...
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Kyrill, Kyrylo (Ukrainian) and a diminutive Kiro (common in the Balkan Sprachbund). Saint Cyril of Jerusalem was a 4th-century bishop and a Doctor of the...
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Mainland Southeast Asia linguistic area (redirect from Southeast Asian sprachbund)
The Mainland Southeast Asia linguistic area is a sprachbund including languages of the Sino-Tibetan, Hmong–Mien (or Miao–Yao), Kra–Dai, Austronesian and...
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Mesoamerican language area (redirect from Mesoamerican sprachbund)
language area is a sprachbund containing many of the languages natively spoken in the cultural area of Mesoamerica. This sprachbund is defined by an array...
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as Chinese. Some northwestern Mandarin varieties in the Qinghai–Gansu sprachbund have undergone drastic changes in phonology, lexicon and grammar. A syllable...
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