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Meaning of "dialect continuum"

This phrase refers to a range or continuum of different dialects or variations of a language that gradually blend into one another. It is used in linguistics to describe how languages may change gradually over a geographical area
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  • A range of dialects that vary slightly by region, so that the further apart two regions are, the more the language differs.

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dialect continuum
There is a dialect continuum between these two.
They can be thought of forming a dialect continuum.
Gbe is a dialect continuum.
Regional variation in spoken Bengali constitutes a dialect continuum.
The background represents a dialect continuum of no language boundaries.
The problem is caused because of the Arabic dialect continuum.
Selkup is fractured in an extensive dialect continuum whose ends are no longer mutually intelligible.
The Romance languages of Italy are a less arguable example of a dialect continuum.
Zunda languages effectively form a dialect continuum of variously mutually intelligible varieties.
Tofa is most closely related to the Tuvan language and forms a dialect continuum with it.
In the center of this dialect continuum lies Satawalese.
The South Slavic languages constitute a dialect continuum.
Northern Kurdish forms a dialect continuum of great variability.
Colognian is part of the Continental West Germanic dialect continuum.
The Cree dialect continuum can be divided by many criteria.

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They are a part of a dialect continuum.
Furthermore, there is a dialect continuum where speakers at the Catalan-Valencian border share the same dialect.
Guajibo and Cuiva form a dialect continuum.
However, as the dialect continuum shades towards Mayennais, there is a less clear isogloss.
Fuumu is a member of the Teke languages dialect continuum of the Congolese plateau.
In most cases, the heavy influence of the standard language has broken the dialect continuum.
Eastern Iranian remains a single dialect continuum subject to common innovation.
Like most natural languages, Romanian dialects are part of a dialect continuum.
The Hindi languages are a large dialect continuum defined as a unit culturally.
Tofa is most-closely related to the Tuvan language and forms a dialect continuum with it.
Kajkavian is part of a dialect continuum with Slovene and Chakavian.
It is a part of the South Slavic dialect continuum.
It is a member of the Ivatan dialect continuum spoken by the Yami people of Taiwan.
By far the most widely spoken Afroasiatic language or dialect continuum is Arabic.
They historically form a dialect continuum that descends from the Madhya Prakrits.
All South Slavic languages form a dialect continuum.
East Low German belongs to the dialect continuum of the continental West Germanic languages.
It is part of the Gallo-Italic and Western Romance dialect continuum.
All dialects of Danish and Bokmål form a dialect continuum within a wider North Germanic dialect continuum.
Moroccan Arabic ( الدارجة المغربية ) is a member of the Maghrebi Arabic dialect continuum spoken in Morocco.
It is the literary and main dialect of the dialect continuum constituting the Dargin languages.
Gallo-Romance dialect continuum spoken from the 9th century to the middle of the 14th century.
According to this framework Alemannic forms of German form a dialect continuum and are clearly dialects.
Very often the Cree dialect continuum is divided into two languages, Cree and Montagnais.
Together with West Low German dialects, it forms a dialect continuum of the Low German language.
Therefore, the dialect continuum is incomplete, with many varieties absent.
The dialects of Denmark, Norway and Sweden form a dialect continuum and are mutually intelligible.
It is part of the Cree-Montagnais-Naskapi dialect continuum.
These dialects form a dialect continuum without clear-cut divisions.
Doğu, a dialect in Eastern Anatolia, has a dialect continuum.
He claimed, that this shows a dialect continuum between two extreme forms.
Jola or Diola is a dialect continuum spoken in Senegal, the Gambia, and Guinea-Bissau.
Kubachi ( alternatively Kubachin ) is a language from the Dargin dialect continuum spoken in Dagestan, Russia.
The Czech-Slovak languages form a dialect continuum rather than being two clearly distinct languages.
West Teke is a dialect continuum.

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