dialect continuum

/D AY1 AH0 L EH0 K T K AH0 N T IH0 N Y UW0 AH0 M/
noun
  1. 1

    (linguistics) A range of dialects that vary slightly across a geographical area, but whose differences accumulate over a certain distance.

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