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linguistic geography

noun

dialect geography.

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Words nearby linguistic geography

linguistic analysis, linguistic area, linguistic atlas, linguistic borrowing, linguistic form, linguistic geography, linguistic philosophy, linguistic stock, linguistic universal, linguistical, linguistician

Origin of linguistic geography

First recorded in 1925–30

OTHER WORDS FROM linguistic geography

linguistic geographer, noun
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British Dictionary definitions for linguistic geography

linguistic geography

noun

the study of the distribution of dialectal speech elements

Derived forms of linguistic geography

linguistic geographer, noun
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