from a proto-language, i.e. a common ancestor language. That is, an areal feature is contrasted with lingual-genealogically determined similarity within...

result of language convergence are called areal features. In situations with many languages in contact and a variety of areal features, linguists may use...

Marc (2017). "Southeast Asian Tone in Areal Perspective". In Raymond Hickey (ed.). The Cambridge Handbook of Areal Linguistics. Cambridge Handbooks in Language...

that mutation of ⟨a⟩ in final open syllable is an areal feature. Specifically, it is an areal feature of Western Austronesia. Uri Tadmor classify those...

sonorants may reflect an areal feature rather than an inherent feature common to the sounds in question. Since none of the three types are very common, languages...

initialisation, CODA talk, TDD conversation, mouthing and contact signing. Areal feature Language transfer Code-switching Pidgin Creole language Lingua franca...

the script of Old Hebrew from Old Aramaic and Phoenician. Areal feature – Linguistic feature arising through language contact rather than common descent...

called morphosemantic features. Areal feature Distinctive feature Featural writing system Markedness Semantic feature Kibort, Anna & Corbett, Greville...

[pʰə̥ˈkj̊uːliɚ] and potato [pʰə̥ˈtʰeɪ̯ɾoʊ̯]. Voiceless vowels are also an areal feature in languages of the American Southwest (like Hopi and Keres),...

disappearance of the Southeast Aral in 2008, Vozrozhdeniya Island effectively no longer exists as a distinct geographical feature. The area is now shared by...

Portuguese painter, António Areal's daughter Area (disambiguation) Areal density (computer storage) Areal feature in linguistics Areal velocity, a term from...

that refers to reduplication as a widespread areal feature in the languages of South Asia. Echo words are characterized by reduplication of a complete...

Lexical affixes are relatively rare and are used in Wakashan, Salishan, and Chimakuan languages — the presence of these is an areal feature of the Pacific...

an areal feature of the circum-Saharan zone (Africa north of the equator plus the Arabian Peninsula). It is not known how old this areal feature is,...

India. The presence of [v] and absence of [w], is a very distinctive areal feature of European languages and those of adjacent areas of Siberia and Central...

contribute to transfer errors in language learning.[citation needed] An areal feature of some European languages is that pronoun dropping is not, or seldom...

"do" as an area feature of what the scholars call "East Africa". Wu Tong has examined prenominal relative clauses as an areal feature in the Ethiopian...

pronounced [k]) have a consonant that is very similar. For instance, an areal feature of the Pacific Northwest coast is that historical *k has become palatalized...

The result is that in Modern Hebrew, דיבוב dibúv means "dubbing". Areal feature Convergent evolution Equivalence Etymological fallacy False etymology...

for its lack of nasal sounds, such as [m], [n], or nasal vowels, an areal feature of Puget Sound. Quileute is polysynthetic and words can be quite long...

demonstrated to be related to them genealogically (the similarities may be an areal feature). Tuu Taa ǃXoon (4200 speakers. A dialect cluster.) Lower Nossob (Two...

consonant - Antonym - Aorist - Applied linguistics - Approximant - Areal feature - Article - Articulatory gestures - Articulatory phonetics - Aspect...

five, although quinary systems exist. To some extent this is also an areal feature of other South American languages; many form their numbers 6–9 as "five...

an areal feature of the "circum-Saharan zone" (Africa north of the equator plus the Arabian Peninsula). It is not known how old this areal feature is...

postpositions). In Mesoamerica, the use of relational nouns constitutes an areal feature of the Mesoamerican Linguistic Area, including the Mayan languages,...

continuum. For example, the spirantisation of Slavic /g/ to /h/ is an areal feature shared by the Czech-Slovak group with both Ukrainian and Sorbian (but...

pharyngeal harmony) involving both vowels and consonants that is an areal feature of this region of North America, shared by other Interior Salishan and...

presence of this vowel phoneme as an areal feature of a Mesoamerican Sprachbund (although that is not a defining feature of the entire area). The sound of...

syllables are regularly lost or weakened. Since the same pattern occurs in the history of Etruscan, this must be assumed to be an areal feature. (By the...

lack the only velar consonant. Other languages lack simple velars. An areal feature of the indigenous languages of the Americas of the coastal regions of...