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Proto-Indo-European *dwóh₁

Proto-Indo-European *dwísder.

Ancient Greek διά (diá)

Ancient Greek δῐᾰ- (dĭă-)

Proto-Indo-European *leǵ-der.

Proto-Indo-European *léǵ-e-ti

Proto-Hellenic *légō

Ancient Greek λέγω (légō)

Ancient Greek διαλέγομαι (dialégomai)

Proto-Indo-European *-tós

Proto-Hellenic *-tós

Ancient Greek -τος (-tos)

Ancient Greek δῐᾰ́λεκτος (dĭắlektos)bor.

Latin dialectoslbor.

Middle French dialectebor.

English dialect

Ancient Greek -ο- (-o-)der.

Latin -o-bor.

English -o-

Proto-Indo-European *leǵ-

Ancient Greek λόγος (lógos)

Proto-Indo-European *-h₂

Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂

Proto-Indo-European *-i-eh₂

Proto-Hellenic *-íā

Ancient Greek -ῐ́ᾱ (-ĭ́ā)

Ancient Greek -λογῐ́ᾱ (-logĭ́ā)bor.

Latin -logialbor.

French -logiebor.

English -logy

English dialectology

From dialect + -o- + -logy.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˌdaɪ.əˌlɛkˈtɒləd͡ʒi/

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• (General American, Atlantic Canada) IPA^(key): /ˌdaɪ.əˌlɛkˈtɑləd͡ʒi/

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• (Canada, Boston, Maine) IPA^(key): /ˌdaɪ.əˌlɛkˈtɒləd͡ʒi/
• (Australia) IPA^(key): /ˌdɑe.əˌlekˈtɔləd͡ʒi/
• (New Zealand) IPA^(key): [ˌdɑe̯.əˌlekˈtɔ̟ləd͡ʒi]

Noun

dialectology (usually uncountable, plural dialectologies)

1. The study of dialects.

Derived terms

• dialectological
• dialectologist

Translations

study of dialects

• Afrikaans: dialektologie, variasietaalkunde (af)
• Arabic: عِلْم اللَّهْجَات m (ʕilm al-lahjāt)
• Armenian: բարբառագիտություն (hy) (barbaṙagitutʻyun)
• Azerbaijani: dialektologiya, ləhcəşünaslıq
• Bengali: উপভাষাতত্ত্ব (upobhaśatotto)
• Bulgarian: диалектоло́гия f (dialektológija)
• Catalan: dialectologia (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 方言學 / 方言学 (zh) (fāngyánxué)

• Crimean Tatar: şiveşınaslıq
• Czech: dialektologie (cs)
• Danish: dialektologi c, dialektforskning c
• Dutch: dialectologie (nl) f
• Estonian: dialektoloogia
• Finnish: dialektologia (fi)
• French: dialectologie (fr) f
• Galician: dialectoloxía f
• Georgian: დიალექტოლოგია (dialekṭologia)
• German: Dialektologie (de) f, Mundartforschung f, Dialektforschung (de) f
• Greek: διαλεκτολογία (el) f (dialektología)
• Hebrew: דיאלקטולוגיה f (dialeqt'ologia)
• Hungarian: dialektológia (hu), nyelvjárástan (hu)
• Icelandic: mállýskufræði f
• Italian: dialettologia (it) f
• Japanese: 方言学 (ja) (ほうげんがく, hōgengaku)
• Khmer: គ្រាមភាសាវិទ្យា (kriem pʰiesaa vityie), ប្រាក្រឹតវិទ្យា (bra kruet vityie)
• Korean: 방언학(方言學) (ko) (bang'eonhak)
• Latvian: dialektoloģija f
• Lithuanian: dialektològija f, tarmė́tyra f
• Macedonian: дијалектологија f (dijalektologija)
• Mongolian: ᠠᠮᠠᠨ
  ᠠᠶᠠᠯᠭᠤ
  ᠰᠤᠳᠤᠯᠤᠯ (aman ayalɣu sudulul), аман аялгуу судлал (aman ajalguu sudlal)
• Norman: dgialectologie f
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: dialektologi m, dialektforsking m or f, dialektforskning m or f

  Nynorsk: dialektologi m, dialektforsking f

• Polish: dialektologia (pl) f, gwaroznawstwo (pl) n
• Portuguese: dialetologia (pt) f
• Romagnol: dialetologì f, dialetologèja f
• Romanian: dialectologie (ro) f
• Russian: диалектоло́гия (ru) f (dialektológija)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: дијалектологија f

  Latin: dijalektologija (sh) f

• Slovak: dialektológia (sk) f
• Slovene: dialektologija, narečjeslovje
• Sorbian:

  Upper Sorbian: dialektologija

• Spanish: dialectología (es) f
• Swedish: dialektforskning c
• Tagalog: palawikainan
• Turkish: diyalektoloji (tr), lehçebilim (tr)
• Ukrainian: діалектоло́гія f (dialektolóhija)
• Uzbek: dialektologiya (uz)
• Vietnamese: thổ ngữ học, phương ngữ học (vi)
• Welsh: tafodieitheg
• Yiddish: דיאַלעקטאָלאָגיע f (dyalektologye)

See also

• dialectics