Dialectology within Russia recognizes dozens of smaller-scale variants.
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The following list reflects only one of several perspectives on the dialectology of Azerbaijani.
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Dialectology studies variations in language based primarily on geographic distribution and their associated features.
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Dialectology treats such topics as divergence of two local dialects from a common ancestor and synchronic variation.
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What is also rather fascinating about the dialectology of Jutland is that variation occurs in all linguistic disciplines.
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As we still do not have a detailed description of Greek dialects, Rumaiica should be regarded as a separate unit in Greek dialectology.
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Sociolinguistics as a field distinct from dialectology was pioneered through the study of language variation in urban areas.
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In Bulgaria Misirkov is regarded as a controversial educator with scientific contribution to Bulgarian dialectology and ethnography.
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While a useful tool in dialectology, the phenomenon may also represent speakers'actual linguistic repertoire in certain sociolinguistic circumstances.
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The branch of philology that is devoted to the study of dialects
Dialectology (from Greek u03B4u03B9u03ACu03BBu03B5u03BAu03C4u03BFu03C2, dialektos, "talk, dialect"; and -u03BBu03BFu03B3u03AFu03B1, -logia) is the scientific study of linguistic dialect, a sub-field of sociolinguistics. It studies variations in language based primarily on geographic distribution and their associated features. Dialectology treats such topics as divergence of two local dialects from a common ancestor and synchronic variation.
(dialectologist) A person who studies regional differences in speech sounds
[sociolinguistics] The area of linguistics which investigates dialects. For most linguists nowadays this branch is regarded as conservative and not concerned with theoretical questions. Also called dialect geography.