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dialect continuums

dialect continuums is the plural of dialect continuum.

Meaning of dialect continuum

Noun

dialect continuum (plural dialect continuums or dialect continua)

  1. A range of dialects that vary slightly across a geographical area, but whose differences accumulate over a certain distance.
    Synonyms:
    dialect chain

Questions about dialect continuums

What is dialect continuums the plural of?
Dialect continuums is the plural of dialect continuum.

Words near dialect continuums in the dictionary

  1. dialect
  2. dialect chain
  3. dialect chains
  4. dialect continua
  5. dialect continuum
  6. dialect continuums
  7. dialect island
  8. dialect islands
  9. dialect levelling
  10. dialectal
  11. dialectalism

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Adapted from Wiktionary: dialect continuums (page history and authors); dialect continuum (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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