Sprachraum

noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    Language area, language zone; geographical region where a language is spoken

    "The Arabic Sprachraum is roughly co-extensive with a geographical continuum stretching from the Arabian peninsula and the lands adjoining the Fertile Crescent to Morocco and from S.E. Anatolia to Sudan."

  2. 2
    the repertoire of language available to a given person

    "[…] as an expansion of the language space, the Sprachraum. The language space of a child expands as his object relationships develop."

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"The Arabic Sprachraum is roughly co-extensive with a geographical continuum stretching from the Arabian peninsula and the lands adjoining the Fertile Crescent to Morocco and from S.E. Anatolia to Sudan."

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from German Sprachraum.

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