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- Dialect_continuum abstract "A dialect continuum, or dialect area, was defined by Leonard Bloomfield as a range of dialects spoken across some geographical area that differ only slightly between neighboring areas, but as one travels in any direction, these differences accumulate such that speakers from opposite ends of the continuum are no longer mutually intelligible. (It is analogous to a ring species in evolutionary biology.) The lines that can be drawn between areas that differ with respect to any feature of language are called isoglosses.According to the Ausbausprache – Abstandsprache – Dachsprache paradigm, these dialects can be considered Abstandsprachen (i.e., as stand-alone languages). However, they can be seen as dialects of a single language, provided that a common standard language, through which communication is possible, exists.In sociolinguistics, a language continuum is said to exist when two or more different languages or dialects merge one into the other(s) without a definable boundary. This happens, for example, across large parts of India. Historically, it also happened in various parts of Europe, for example in a line stretching from Portuguese to Walloon (in Belgium); from Portuguese to the southern Italian dialects; and between German and Dutch. Within the last 100 years or so, however, the increasing dominance of nation-states and their standard languages has been steadily eliminating the non-standard dialects of which these language continua were formed, making the boundaries ever more abrupt and well-defined.In some cases, controversy often arises regarding the question of which particular dialect an individual is using – or even to which language a particular dialect belongs. To varying degrees, such cases involve sociolects and/or the distinctions are subjective rather than having any discernible basis in objective linguistics. They are generally found in when two or more distinct ethnicities have long histories of shared linguistic development and geographic residence, but nevertheless regard themselves, and/or each other, as speaking different dialects or languages. This occurs as a result of divisions related to religion, political ideology, nationalism or regionalism, and/or other dimensions of historical identity. In such cases, the dialects concerned may have emerged, or re-emerged, as a result of splits in extinct or declining standard languages. Examples of such controversies include regions such as Kashmir, in which local Muslims usually regard their language as Urdu, while Hindus regard the same speech as Hindi. Similar complications arise across much of the former Yugoslavia, in which Bosniaks, Croats, Montenegrins and Serbs may appear to speak the very same dialect. Perhaps the prime example is the Shtokavian dialect, which is officially regarded by Croats as Croatian, Bosniaks as Bosnian, Montenegrins as Montenegrin, and Serbs as Serbian.".
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- Dialect_continuum subject Category:Dialects.
- Dialect_continuum subject Category:Language_comparison.
- Dialect_continuum subject Category:Language_versus_dialect.
- Dialect_continuum type Abstraction100002137.
- Dialect_continuum type AuditoryCommunication107109019.
- Dialect_continuum type Communication100033020.
- Dialect_continuum type Dialect107155661.
- Dialect_continuum type Dialects.
- Dialect_continuum type Non-standardSpeech107155081.
- Dialect_continuum type Speech107109196.
- Dialect_continuum comment "A dialect continuum, or dialect area, was defined by Leonard Bloomfield as a range of dialects spoken across some geographical area that differ only slightly between neighboring areas, but as one travels in any direction, these differences accumulate such that speakers from opposite ends of the continuum are no longer mutually intelligible.".
- Dialect_continuum label "Continuo dialectal".
- Dialect_continuum label "Continuum dialetal".
- Dialect_continuum label "Continuum linguistique".
- Dialect_continuum label "Dialect continuum".
- Dialect_continuum label "Dialectcontinuüm".
- Dialect_continuum label "Dialektkontinuum".
- Dialect_continuum label "Kontinuum językowe".
- Dialect_continuum label "Диалектный континуум".
- Dialect_continuum label "مجموعة لهجات".
- Dialect_continuum label "方言连续体".
- Dialect_continuum label "方言連続体".
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- Dialect_continuum sameAs 方言連続体.
- Dialect_continuum sameAs 방언_연속체.
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- Dialect_continuum sameAs Kontinuum_językowe.
- Dialect_continuum sameAs Continuum_dialetal.
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- Dialect_continuum sameAs Q215844.
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