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sprachbünde

sprachbünde is the plural of sprachbund.

Meaning of sprachbund

Noun

sprachbund (plural sprachbunds or sprachbünde)

  1. A group of languages sharing a number of areal features (similar grammar, vocabulary, etc.) which are primarily due to language contact rather than cognation.
    • 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...1948, F[ranciscus] B[ernardus] J[acobus] Kuiper, “Introduction”, in Proto-Munda Words in Sanskrit (Verhandelingen der Koninklijke Nederlandse Akademie van Wetenschappen. Afd. Letterkunde, Nieuwe...
    Synonyms:
    area of linguistic convergence, diffusion area, language crossroads, linguistic area

Noun capitalized: Sprachbünde

Sprachbünde

  1. (plural) plural of Sprachbund

Synonyms of sprachbünde

Origin of sprachbünde

Borrowed from German Sprachbünde.

Questions about sprachbünde

What is sprachbünde the plural of?
Sprachbünde is the plural of sprachbund.
What part of speech is sprachbünde?
Sprachbünde is a noun.

Words near sprachbünde in the dictionary

  1. SPPS
  2. SPPSs
  3. SPR
  4. sprachbund
  5. sprachbunds
  6. sprachbünde
  7. sprachgefuhl
  8. sprachgefühl
  9. Sprachraum
  10. sprack
  11. sprackle

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