"L-complex" meaning in English

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          "ref": "2013, Rainer Vossen, The Khoesan Languages, page 9",
          "text": "!Xun can be described as an L-complex, that is, as a cluster of speech forms that are linked by a chain of mutual intelligibility, but speakers at the extreme ends of the chain do not understand one another.",
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        "(linguistics) Synonym of dialect continuum."
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