Sprachbund
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sprachbund-166-371319
title:
Sprachbund
text:
A sprachbund, also known as a linguistic area, area of linguistic convergence, or diffusion area, is a group of languages that share areal features resulting from geographical proximity and language contact. The languages may be genetically unrelated, or only distantly related, but the sprachbund characteristics might give a false appearance of relatedness. A grouping of languages that share features can only be defined as a sprachbund if the features are shared for some reason other than the ge
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wiki
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encyclopedia
description:
Group of languages sharing areal features
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sprachbund
date created:
2003-01-08T12:54:43Z
date modified:
2024-08-29T17:23:10Z
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