sprachbund

sprachbund englanniksi

1. A group of languages sharing a number of areal features (similar grammar, vocabulary, etc.) which are primarily due to contact rather than cognation.

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2. (quote-book), Department of Literature, New Series|seriesvolume=deel part LI, number 3|location=Amsterdam|publisher=Noord-Hollandsche Uitgevers Maatschappij Publishing Society|year=1948|page=5|pageurl=https://archive.org/stream/in.ernet.dli.2015.103222/2015.103222.Proto-Munda-Words-In-Sanskritpage/n7/mode/1up|oclc=879149912|passage=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'').

3. (quote-book) 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 (..)

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5. (quote-book) On the other hand, sprachbunds are defined exclusively in terms of linguistic parameters without reference to the historical forces that gave rise to them.

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