Sprachbundn.
/ˈʃprɑːxbʊnt/ Linguistics.
A linguistic community containing members of different language families which have developed some common characteristics through geographical proximity; the process of linguistic change producing this.
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1943 H. V. Vellen in Pacific Northwest Q. 34 iii. 271 From a synchronic point of view, Salish and Sahaptin belong to one linguistic area—if I may thus translate Prince Trubetzkoy's term Sprachbund.
1975 P. Friedrich Proto-Indo-European Syntax 39 The pertinent portion of this Eurasian syntactic Sprachbund is dominated by Caucasian, Altaic, and Dravidian languages.
1980 Amer. Speech 1976 51 254 An author writing a book dealing with diachronic linguistics in the 1970s ought to include a discussion of contact phenomena such as bilingualism, Sprachbund, and pidgin and creole languages.
1984 Eng. World-wide 5 203 The processes, context and content operating at the time had led to an enormous variety of language forms in the Sprachbund, including features which have since died out, continued, or changed in form or function.
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