A dialect continuum or dialect chain is a series of language varieties spoken across some geographical area such that neighboring varieties are mutually...

language is largely uncommon among its native speakers, as it forms a dialect continuum of mutually intelligible varieties and therefore it is primarily referred...

languages constitute a dialect continuum. Serbian, Croatian, Bosnian, and Montenegrin constitute a single dialect within this continuum. South Slavic Eastern...

Hindi–Urdu Belt or Hindustani Belt. Hindi is part of the Indo-Aryan dialect continuum that lies within the cultural Hindi Belt in the northern plains of...

syllabics. Cree (/kriː/ KREE; also known as Cree–Montagnais–Naskapi) is a dialect continuum of Algonquian languages spoken by approximately 86,475 people across...

between a language and a dialect is not clear-cut and simple: in many areas there is a dialect continuum, with transitional dialects and languages. Further...

A post-creole continuum (or simply creole continuum) is a dialect continuum of varieties of a creole language between those most and least similar to...

(dialect continuum) Egyptian Arabic (dialect continuum) Judeo-Egyptian Arabic Saʽidi Arabic Cairene Arabic Sudanese-Chadian Arabic (dialect continuum)...

which encompasses the southeastern part of the dialect continuum of South Slavic. Eastern South Slavic dialects share a number of characteristics that set...

of dialects spoken over a geographical area that differ slightly between neighboring areas is known as a dialect continuum. A language continuum is a...

many societies around the world. A dialect continuum is a network of dialects in which geographically adjacent dialects are mutually comprehensible, but...

the geographical spread of the High German consonant shift, and the dialect continuum that connects German to the neighboring varieties of Low Franconian...

dialects of the Eastern South Slavic dialect continuum, whose earliest recorded form is Old Church Slavonic. During much of its history, this dialect...

has often been criticized, especially in the case of a dialect continuum (or dialect chain), which contains a sequence of varieties, where each mutually...

framework addresses situations in which multiple varieties from a dialect continuum have been standardized, so that they are commonly considered distinct...

Scottish Standard English. Most Scottish people's speech exists on a dialect continuum ranging between Broad Scots and Standard English. Given that there...

affricate /t͡ʃ/ with /t͡ʃʰ/. Kurmanji forms a dialect continuum of great variability. Loosely, six dialect areas can be distinguished: Northwestern Kurmanji...

several other dialect groups, both are part of a dialect continuum that continues across the national border. The Dutch Low Saxon dialect area comprises...

Bosnian and Montenegrin standards. It is a part of the South Slavic dialect continuum. Its name comes from the form for the interrogative pronoun for "what"...

peripheral dialect in the dialect continuum of Neo-Aramaic stretching from Turoyo to western Iran. Khan, G. (2007). "The North-Eastern Neo-Aramaic Dialects". Journal...

ǃKung /ˈkʊŋ/ KUUNG (ǃXun), also known as Ju (/ˈdʒuː/ JOO), is a dialect continuum (language complex) spoken in Namibia, Botswana, and Angola by the ǃKung...

languages appears in studies of the modern standard languages and the dialect continuum of Scandinavia. Danish, Norwegian and Swedish are close enough to...

based on multiple northern Mandarin dialects, later evolving into Modern Standard Mandarin. Dialect continuum Dialect levelling Language shift Lingua franca...

West Low German dialects, it forms a dialect continuum of the Low German language. Before 1945, the dialect was spoken along the entire then-German-settled...

Adyghe dialects but it has only three phonemic vowels. Its consonants and consonant clusters are less complex than the Abkhaz–Abaza dialects. Kabardian...

"Tamazight", or "Amazigh". The languages, with a few exceptions, form a dialect continuum. There is a debate as to how to best sub-categorize languages within...

Dutch. (See Afrikaans § Mutual intelligibility with Dutch.) In a dialect continuum, neighbouring varieties are mutually intelligible, but differences...

can continually exchange linguistic inventions; this is known as a dialect continuum. A "language island" is a language area that is completely surrounded...

a langue d'oïl, Gallo forms part of a dialect continuum which includes Norman, Picard, and the Poitevin dialect among others. One of the features that...

The Ngbandi language is a dialect continuum of the Ubangian family spoken by a half-million or so people in the Democratic Republic of Congo (Ngbandi...