dialect levelling

English

Alternative forms

dialect leveling (US)

Noun

dialect levelling (usually uncountable, plural dialect levellings)

(linguistics) the reduction of dialectal diversity within a language due to the propagation of a single prestige variety

Translations

dialect levelling

Dutch: dialectnivellering
Korean: 방언평준화(方言平準化) (bang'eonpyeongjunhwa)
Spanish: nivelación lingüística

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