Dialectology

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    The study of dialects. uncountable, usually
  2. 2
    the branch of philology that is devoted to the study of dialects wordnet

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derivationdialect data studydialect documentationdialect researchdialect studyetymology

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"My field of specialty is Berber dialectology."

Etymology

From dialect + -o- + -logy.

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