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linguistic atlas

noun

dialect atlas.

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Origin of linguistic atlas

First recorded in 1920–25

Words nearby linguistic atlas

linguist, linguistic, linguistical, linguistic analysis, linguistic area, linguistic atlas, linguistic borrowing, linguistic form, linguistic geography, linguistician, linguistic philosophy
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British Dictionary definitions for linguistic atlas

linguistic atlas

noun

an atlas showing the distribution of distinctive linguistic features of languages or dialects
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