Meanings
adjectivediatopic (not comparable)
- not comparablehuman sciencesConcerned with or relating to the ways in which language varies regionally or across geography.
The variant forms of textual tradition, relevant on the level of the diachronic and diatopic study of the text, were irrelevant on the level of the single manuscript.
1989, William Veder, Texts of Closed Tradition – The Key to the Manuscript Heritage of Old Rus’Synonyms: dialectal
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adjectiveConcerned with or relating to the ways in which language varies regionally or across geography.
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Catalan diatòpic
- diatòpichaving to do with geographical variation in language
French diatopique
- diatopiquehaving to do with geographical variation in language
German diatopisch
- diatopischhaving to do with geographical variation in language
Italian diatopico
- diatopicohaving to do with geographical variation in language
Portuguese diatópico
- diatópicohaving to do with geographical variation in language
Spanish diatópico
- diatópicohaving to do with geographical variation in language
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