linguistic geography

American

noun

dialect geography.

linguistic geography British

noun

the study of the distribution of dialectal speech elements

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Other Word Forms

linguistic geographer noun

Etymology

Origin of linguistic geography

First recorded in 1925–30

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In tracing the story we must keep in our mind's eye the linguistic geography of Italy, just as we must remember the political geography of the peninsula in following Rome's territorial expansion.

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