linguistic geography
Americannoun
noun
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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.
From The Common People of Ancient Rome Studies of Roman Life and Literature by Abbott, Frank Frost
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