"sprachbund" meaning in All languages combined

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Noun [English]

IPA: /ˈspɹɑːkbʊnd/ [Received-Pronunciation], /ˈspɹɑːx-/ [Received-Pronunciation], /ˈspɹɑkbʊnd/ [General-American], /ˈspɹɑx-/ [General-American] Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-sprachbund.wav [Southern-England] Forms: sprachbunds [plural], sprachbünde [plural]
Etymology: Borrowed from German Sprachbund (literally “language alliance, language association”), from Sprache (“language; way of speaking, speech”) (ultimately from Proto-West Germanic *sprāku (“language; speech”)) + Bund (“alliance”) (from binden (“to bind, to tie up”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *bʰendʰ- (“to bind”)). The German word was coined by Russian linguist Nikolai Trubetzkoy (1890–1938) in a paper he presented to the inaugural International Congress of Linguists in 1928 as a calque of the Russian term языково́й сою́з (jazykovój sojúz, literally “language union”), which he had introduced in a 1923 article. Etymology templates: {{bor|en|de|Sprachbund|lit=language alliance, language association}} German Sprachbund (literally “language alliance, language association”), {{der|en|gmw-pro|*sprāku|t=language; speech}} Proto-West Germanic *sprāku (“language; speech”), {{der|en|ine-pro|*bʰendʰ-|t=to bind}} Proto-Indo-European *bʰendʰ- (“to bind”), {{glossary|calque}} calque Head templates: {{en-noun|s|sprachbünde}} sprachbund (plural sprachbunds or sprachbünde)
  1. (linguistics) A group of languages sharing a number of areal features (similar grammar, vocabulary, etc.) which are primarily due to language contact rather than cognation. Wikipedia link: International Congress of Linguists, Nikolai Trubetzkoy Categories (topical): Linguistics Synonyms: area of linguistic convergence, diffusion area, language crossroads, linguistic area, Sprachbund Related terms: Sprachgefühl, Sprachraum, Sprechbund Translations (group of languages sharing areal features primarily due to language contact): spraakbond (Afrikaans), شبراخبوند (šprāḵbund) [Egyptian-Arabic] (Arabic), sprachbund (Basque), àrea lingüística [feminine] (Catalan), 語言聯盟 (Chinese Mandarin), 语言联盟 (yǔyán liánméng) (Chinese Mandarin), jazykový svaz [masculine] (Czech), taalbond [masculine] (Dutch), Sprachbund [masculine] (Dutch), keeleliit (Estonian), kielisikermä (Finnish), aire linguistique [feminine] (French), área lingüística [feminine] (Galician), Sprachbund [masculine] (German), שפראכבונד (shprakhbund) [masculine] (Hebrew), lega linguistica [feminine] (Italian), 言語連合 (gengo rengō) (alt: げんごれんごう) (Japanese), тілдік одақ (tıldık odaq) (Kazakh), språkbunt [feminine, masculine] (Norwegian Bokmål), språkknippe (Norwegian Bokmål), sprachbund (Norwegian Nynorsk), liga językowa [feminine] (Polish), área linguística [feminine] (Portuguese), языково́й сою́з (jazykovój sojúz) [masculine] (Russian), шпрахбу́нд (špraxbúnd) [masculine] (Russian), јѐзичкӣ са́вез [Cyrillic, masculine] (Serbo-Croatian), jèzičkī sávez [Roman, masculine] (Serbo-Croatian), sprachbund (Spanish), dil birliği (Turkish), мо́вний сою́з (móvnyj sojúz) [masculine] (Ukrainian)

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          "ref": "1997, Malcolm Ross, “Social Networks and Kinds of Speech-Community Event”, in Roger Blench, Matthew Spriggs, editors, Archaeology and Language I: Theoretical and Methodological Orientations (One World Archaeology; 27), London, New York, N.Y.: Routledge, page 243",
          "text": "The linguist reader will recognize that the Takia/Waskia, Mixe Basque/Gascon, Romansch/Swiss German and Sauris German/Friulian pairs each form a small Sprachbund ('language alliance'). Probably the best-known Sprachbund consists of modern Greek, Albanian, Romanian, and the southern Slav languages Macedonian, Bulgarian, Serbian and Croatian, which through centuries of contact have undergone metatypy to the extent that there are very close semantic and syntactic […]",
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          "ref": "1988, Jacek Fisiak, editor, Historical Dialectology: Regional and Social (Trends in Linguistics, Studies and Monographs; 37), New York, N.Y.: Mouton de Gruyter, page 308",
          "text": "[…] 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 […]",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1997, Malcolm Ross, “Social Networks and Kinds of Speech-Community Event”, in Roger Blench, Matthew Spriggs, editors, Archaeology and Language I: Theoretical and Methodological Orientations (One World Archaeology; 27), London, New York, N.Y.: Routledge, page 243",
          "text": "The linguist reader will recognize that the Takia/Waskia, Mixe Basque/Gascon, Romansch/Swiss German and Sauris German/Friulian pairs each form a small Sprachbund ('language alliance'). Probably the best-known Sprachbund consists of modern Greek, Albanian, Romanian, and the southern Slav languages Macedonian, Bulgarian, Serbian and Croatian, which through centuries of contact have undergone metatypy to the extent that there are very close semantic and syntactic […]",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2005, Bernd Heine, Tania Kuteva, “On Linguistic Areas”, in Language Contact and Grammatical Change (Cambridge Approaches to Language Contact), Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, section 5.1 (Types of Linguistic Areas), page 173",
          "text": "Substantial work has been done to define sprachbunds, with the result that there now are a few regions in all major macro-regions of the world that can be defined in terms of language contact. With regard to defining sprachbunds, two different stances can be distinguished. On the one hand it is argued that a definition of sprachbunds should highlight the fact that they are the result of language contact, that is, of historical processes; […] On the other hand, sprachbunds are defined exclusively in terms of linguistic parameters without reference to the historical forces that gave rise to them.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2013, Thomas Stolz, “Contemporary Europe”, in Competing Comparative Constructions in Europe (Studia Typologica; 13), [Berlin]: Akademie Verlag, section 5.3.4 (The Internal Geolinguisics of Europe), page 196",
          "text": "The research program took shape after the Pragian structuralists made public their definition of the concept of Sprachbund. Since then various hypotheses have been put forward as to the subdivision of the continent into a number of distinct areas which are commonly termed Sprachbünde, linguistic areas or contact superposition zones[…].",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
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        "A group of languages sharing a number of areal features (similar grammar, vocabulary, etc.) which are primarily due to language contact rather than cognation."
      ],
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          "linguistics"
        ],
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        [
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        ],
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        ],
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        ]
      ],
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        "(linguistics) A group of languages sharing a number of areal features (similar grammar, vocabulary, etc.) which are primarily due to language contact rather than cognation."
      ],
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        {
          "word": "area of linguistic convergence"
        },
        {
          "word": "diffusion area"
        },
        {
          "word": "language crossroads"
        },
        {
          "word": "linguistic area"
        }
      ],
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        "linguistics",
        "sciences"
      ],
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        "International Congress of Linguists",
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      ]
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      "tags": [
        "Received-Pronunciation"
      ]
    },
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      "ipa": "/ˈspɹɑːx-/",
      "tags": [
        "Received-Pronunciation"
      ]
    },
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      "ipa": "/ˈspɹɑkbʊnd/",
      "tags": [
        "General-American"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈspɹɑx-/",
      "tags": [
        "General-American"
      ]
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      ],
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    }
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    {
      "word": "Sprachbund"
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      "code": "af",
      "lang": "Afrikaans",
      "sense": "group of languages sharing areal features primarily due to language contact",
      "word": "spraakbond"
    },
    {
      "code": "arz",
      "lang": "Arabic",
      "roman": "šprāḵbund",
      "sense": "group of languages sharing areal features primarily due to language contact",
      "tags": [
        "Egyptian-Arabic"
      ],
      "word": "شبراخبوند"
    },
    {
      "code": "eu",
      "lang": "Basque",
      "sense": "group of languages sharing areal features primarily due to language contact",
      "word": "sprachbund"
    },
    {
      "code": "ca",
      "lang": "Catalan",
      "sense": "group of languages sharing areal features primarily due to language contact",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "àrea lingüística"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "sense": "group of languages sharing areal features primarily due to language contact",
      "word": "語言聯盟"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "yǔyán liánméng",
      "sense": "group of languages sharing areal features primarily due to language contact",
      "word": "语言联盟"
    },
    {
      "code": "cs",
      "lang": "Czech",
      "sense": "group of languages sharing areal features primarily due to language contact",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "jazykový svaz"
    },
    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "group of languages sharing areal features primarily due to language contact",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "taalbond"
    },
    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "group of languages sharing areal features primarily due to language contact",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "Sprachbund"
    },
    {
      "code": "et",
      "lang": "Estonian",
      "sense": "group of languages sharing areal features primarily due to language contact",
      "word": "keeleliit"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "group of languages sharing areal features primarily due to language contact",
      "word": "kielisikermä"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "group of languages sharing areal features primarily due to language contact",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "aire linguistique"
    },
    {
      "code": "gl",
      "lang": "Galician",
      "sense": "group of languages sharing areal features primarily due to language contact",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "área lingüística"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "group of languages sharing areal features primarily due to language contact",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "Sprachbund"
    },
    {
      "code": "he",
      "lang": "Hebrew",
      "roman": "shprakhbund",
      "sense": "group of languages sharing areal features primarily due to language contact",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "שפראכבונד"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "group of languages sharing areal features primarily due to language contact",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "lega linguistica"
    },
    {
      "alt": "げんごれんごう",
      "code": "ja",
      "lang": "Japanese",
      "roman": "gengo rengō",
      "sense": "group of languages sharing areal features primarily due to language contact",
      "word": "言語連合"
    },
    {
      "code": "kk",
      "lang": "Kazakh",
      "roman": "tıldık odaq",
      "sense": "group of languages sharing areal features primarily due to language contact",
      "word": "тілдік одақ"
    },
    {
      "code": "no",
      "lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
      "sense": "group of languages sharing areal features primarily due to language contact",
      "tags": [
        "feminine",
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "språkbunt"
    },
    {
      "code": "no",
      "lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
      "sense": "group of languages sharing areal features primarily due to language contact",
      "word": "språkknippe"
    },
    {
      "code": "nn",
      "lang": "Norwegian Nynorsk",
      "sense": "group of languages sharing areal features primarily due to language contact",
      "word": "sprachbund"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "group of languages sharing areal features primarily due to language contact",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "liga językowa"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "group of languages sharing areal features primarily due to language contact",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "área linguística"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "jazykovój sojúz",
      "sense": "group of languages sharing areal features primarily due to language contact",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "языково́й сою́з"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "špraxbúnd",
      "sense": "group of languages sharing areal features primarily due to language contact",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "шпрахбу́нд"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "group of languages sharing areal features primarily due to language contact",
      "tags": [
        "Cyrillic",
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "јѐзичкӣ са́вез"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "group of languages sharing areal features primarily due to language contact",
      "tags": [
        "Roman",
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "jèzičkī sávez"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "group of languages sharing areal features primarily due to language contact",
      "word": "sprachbund"
    },
    {
      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "sense": "group of languages sharing areal features primarily due to language contact",
      "word": "dil birliği"
    },
    {
      "code": "uk",
      "lang": "Ukrainian",
      "roman": "móvnyj sojúz",
      "sense": "group of languages sharing areal features primarily due to language contact",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "мо́вний сою́з"
    }
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}

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