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The branch of philology that is devoted to the study of dialects.

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  • Is there some subtle complication in Hawaiian orthography or dialectology that I'm missing?
  • Two of his students have had bibliographies written for his class published; one, Michael Fody, had his paper appear in the outstanding journal of the world in the field of...
  • I think that people who care about English — especially those who have seriously studied its history, grammar, dialectology, etc. — have the right to influence others,...
  • The hierarchical ranking of speech, with the classical languages of Western Europe at the summit of human culture, was giving way to the relativism of scientific...
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