Definitions
Wiktionary
- n. linguistics An ensemble of areal features: similarity in grammar, vocabulary, etc.
Etymologies
- German, literally "speech alliance" or "speech confederation". (Wiktionary)
Examples
“So Hybrid Theory would give us a clear post-IE date for this change of *-bhi- to *-mi-, likely occurring sometime after the phonation shift in dialects neighbouring the Germanic/Balto-Slavic sprachbund.”
“Incidentally, is there any particular reason why Scott is interested in Salishan languages specifically, rather than the NW Coastal sprachbund in general?”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘sprachbund’.
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TankHughes's Words
ambulance, ampersand, assassin, assuage, atom, awkward, botany, boustrophedonic, brinksmanship, bumbershoot, bundesliga, calamity and 64 more...
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Language
sprachbund, illeism, ingveonic, malapropism, paronomasia, glottogony, macaronic, aphasia, paraphasia, phatic, urheimat, sprachgefühl and 16 more...
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tysk
a.k.a german words i like
gemütlichkeit, glühwein, zeitgeist, ach so!, unglaublich, torschlusspanik, backpfeifengesicht, kummerspeck, drachenfutter, weltschmerz, wanderlust, verboten and 10 more...
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Words I like
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Cund Bundle
facund, fecund, infecund, inverecund, iracund, jocund, rubicund, secund, verecund, sprachbund
Tweets
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adoarns Actually, I understand sprachbund as a collection of languages which exhibit similarity derived from their close association, and not from genetic history.
The existence of sprachbunds is one of the prime differences of linguistic evolution from biological evolution (discounting the rather large corner case of bacterial conjugation). Dec 17, 2007
misterpolly Presumably a group of people linked by a common language. Why does it have to be in German? German words always sound so heart-achingly, mind-bendingly philosophical. Dec 17, 2007