If you are a First Nations fan, maybe read the article "Bella Coola and North Wakashan: Convergence and diversity in the Northwest Coast Sprachbund."
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Sprachbund
//ˈspɹɑːkbʊnd//
Synonyms for "sprachbund" (8 found)
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Noun(1 words)
Related words (4)
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4 entriesRelated terms
3 entrieshas context
1 entriesrelated to
8 entriesTranslations
32 translations across 27 languages.
Afrikaans
1 entries- spraakbond noun (group of languages sharing areal features primarily due to language contact)
Arabic
1 entries- شبراخبوند noun (group of languages sharing areal features primarily due to language contact)
Basque
1 entries- sprachbund noun (group of languages sharing areal features primarily due to language contact)
Catalan
1 entries- àrea lingüística noun (group of languages sharing areal features primarily due to language contact)
Chinese Mandarin
1 entries- 語言聯盟 /语言联盟 noun (group of languages sharing areal features primarily due to language contact)
Czech
1 entries- jazykový svaz noun (group of languages sharing areal features primarily due to language contact)
Dutch
2 entries- Sprachbund noun (group of languages sharing areal features primarily due to language contact)
- taalbond noun (group of languages sharing areal features primarily due to language contact)
Estonian
1 entries- keeleliit noun (group of languages sharing areal features primarily due to language contact)
Finnish
2 entries- kieliliitto noun (group of languages sharing areal features primarily due to language contact)
- kielisikermä noun (group of languages sharing areal features primarily due to language contact)
French
1 entries- aire linguistique noun (group of languages sharing areal features primarily due to language contact)
Galician
1 entries- área lingüística noun (group of languages sharing areal features primarily due to language contact)
German
1 entries- Sprachbund noun (group of languages sharing areal features primarily due to language contact)
Hebrew
1 entries- שפראכבונד noun (group of languages sharing areal features primarily due to language contact)
Italian
1 entries- lega linguistica noun (group of languages sharing areal features primarily due to language contact)
Japanese
1 entries- 言語連合 noun (group of languages sharing areal features primarily due to language contact)
Kazakh
1 entries- тілдік одақ noun (group of languages sharing areal features primarily due to language contact)
Norwegian Bokmål
2 entries- språkbunt noun (group of languages sharing areal features primarily due to language contact)
- språkknippe noun (group of languages sharing areal features primarily due to language contact)
Norwegian Nynorsk
1 entries- sprachbund noun (group of languages sharing areal features primarily due to language contact)
Polish
1 entries- liga językowa noun (group of languages sharing areal features primarily due to language contact)
Portuguese
1 entries- área linguística noun (group of languages sharing areal features primarily due to language contact)
Russian
2 entries- шпрахбу́нд noun (group of languages sharing areal features primarily due to language contact)
- языково́й сою́з noun (group of languages sharing areal features primarily due to language contact)
Serbo-Croatian
2 entries- jèzičkī sávez noun (group of languages sharing areal features primarily due to language contact)
- јѐзичкӣ са́вез noun (group of languages sharing areal features primarily due to language contact)
Spanish
1 entries- sprachbund noun (group of languages sharing areal features primarily due to language contact)
Swedish
1 entries- språkförbund noun (group of languages sharing areal features primarily due to language contact)
Turkish
1 entries- dil birliği noun (group of languages sharing areal features primarily due to language contact)
Ukrainian
1 entries- мо́вний сою́з noun (group of languages sharing areal features primarily due to language contact)
Yiddish
1 entries- שפּראַכבונד noun (group of languages sharing areal features primarily due to language contact)
Sample sentences
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The introduction of the new term Proto-Munda is justified by the fact that, as early as the Vedic period, the Munda languages had departed considerably from the Austro-Asiatic type of language and developed a character of their own brought about by a number of dialectal phonetic changes and the introduction of suffixes in the word-formation. Both phenomena mark the beginning of a process of "Dravidization" of the Munda tongues which has ultimately given them the character of agglutinating languages and has thus contributed to the growth of the Indian linguistic league (Sprachbund).
Source: wiktionary
[…] Certainly it is 'nicer' to define a sprachbund by what appear to be exclusively shared features with differentiate it from its neighbors – just as it is 'nicer' to be able to define a dialect by a set of innovations which clearly mark it off from other, related dialects. In the case of dialect continua, it has been known for a long time that this approach is unrealistic and historically inaccurate […]
Source: wiktionary
The linguist reader will recognize that the Takia/Waskia, Mixe Basque/Gascon, Romansch/Swiss German and Sauris German/Friulian pairs each form a small Sprachbund ('language alliance'). Probably the best-known Sprachbund consists of modern Greek, Albanian, Romanian, and the southern Slav languages Macedonian, Bulgarian, Serbian and Croatian, which through centuries of contact have undergone metatypy to the extent that there are very close semantic and syntactic […]
Source: wiktionary
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