dialect levelling
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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
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