Topolect

Synonyms for "topolect" (5 found)

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Noun(1 words)

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Related words (2)

Noun(2 words)

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8 relation types

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Related terms

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coordinate

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derived

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etymologically related_to

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has context

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is a

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related to

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Translations

10 translations across 8 languages.

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Chinese Mandarin

1 entries
  • 方言 noun (speech-form or lect of a particular place)

Finnish

2 entries
  • aluemurre noun (speech-form or lect of a particular place)
  • paikallismurre noun (speech-form or lect of a particular place)

French

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  • topolecte noun (speech-form or lect of a particular place)

German

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  • Topolekt noun (speech-form or lect of a particular place)

Japanese

1 entries
  • 方言 noun (speech-form or lect of a particular place)

Korean

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  • 방언 noun (speech-form or lect of a particular place)

Russian

2 entries
  • тополе́кт noun (speech-form or lect of a particular place)
  • фанъя́нь noun (speech-form or lect of a particular place)

Spanish

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  • topolecto noun (speech-form or lect of a particular place)

Sample sentences

9 total sentences available.

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Frank was a close Chinese friend from an obscure topolect. We went together to Mexico. He was a coworker at a big North American software firm. He was an avid ice hockey player, as was my university friend Steve, who was also Chinese.

Source: tatoeba (10585054)

Some of my neighbours are illiterate in their native Sinitic topolect, as the writing is not alphabetic. It is Cantonese.

Source: tatoeba (10680428)

My ancestral Sinitic topolect has a long history of being written in the Latin alphabet. This writing is quite phonemic. It is the Hokkien language.

Source: tatoeba (10680431)

Read the dissertation "Writing Taiwanese: The Pe̍h-ōe-jī Romanization and Identity Construction in Taiwan," about the Hokkien Sinitic topolect.

Source: tatoeba (10681526)

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Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.