Questions tagged [dialect-mapping]
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Geographic distribution of ‘I haven’t’ and ‘I’ve not’
The answer to this question on English Language & Usage discusses a possible difference between American and British dialects in their use of ‘I’ve not’ and ‘I haven’t’. I have noticed ‘I’ve not’ ...
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How do you make a linguistic map like Ethnologue does [duplicate]
Basically i visit the Ethnologue website about 1-2 times a day, and i still wonder how they make their maps, like these:
It's so realistic and i want to make one for the Philippines, my home country. ...
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Is this Wikipedia Arabic dialects map correct about Badawi Arabic, and what is Badawi Arabic?
This map is from Wikipedia's Varieties of Arabic page. On the northern half of the western Red Sea coast, as well as most of Sinai and Israel, it seems to indicate that "Badawi" Arabic is ...
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Are consonants more stable than vowels?
I was trying my hand at an exercise to distinguish the different Sámi dialects (the exercise was used in the 2020 version of the Dutch Linguistics Olympiad). It gives nine words in all nine dialects ...
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Spoken Arabic dictionary/corpus?
Is there an existing corpus or dictionary for different spoken Arabic dialects? I'd like to look up a word (in English or MSA or in a spoken dialect) and find where this word or phrase is spoken (and ...
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How have dialectology surveys changed over the years?
*Apologies for any ill terminology I may use, I'm pretty new to the field
I've been working on the transition of dialectology surveys from the traditional methods to the modern ones, now that we not ...
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"Ring species" as dialect continuum?
In biology, ring species is a population of subspecies in a geographically ring-shaped region, where individuals are close (in terms of interbreeding) if they live close to each other, but between the ...
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What's the longest extant dialect continuum?
According to jknappen, there's a dialect continuum stretching from Rome to Lisbon without interruption. This is a wonderfully interesting piece of trivia that I wouldn't have believed before seeing ...
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“We was” and other dialectical variants
According to the British Library site, the use of nonstandard forms of past tense expressions like “we was” are common in some English dialects
The verb 'to be' has two simple past forms in ...
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Can the "dialect continuum" phenomenon be recognized from Rome to Lisbon?
A dialect continuum or dialect chain is a spread of language varieties spoken across some geographical area such that neighbouring varieties differ only slightly, but the differences accumulate over ...
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What are the exact relations between Slovak and Slovene?
The former seems to have more speakers, while the latter seems to possess the elder history.
Slovak said to be a West Slavic language, while Slovene seems to belong to the South Slavic group (...
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Is there a convenient tool for drawing (dialect) maps?
I need to draw a dialect map, splitting an area up into differently coloured regions. Is there an online tool for creating dialect maps?
Of course, any map drawing tool where I can take an existing ...
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