topolect

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. The speech form, variety (lect) of a particular place or region.
    — We can then establish and name further categories by means of the word "group" and the prefix "sub-", thus obtaining SUBDIALECT ("Untermundart") between topolect and dialect, DIALECT GROUP ("Mundartengruppe") between dialect and language, SUBFAMILY ("Unterfamilie") between language and family,
  2. A regional variety of Chinese; especially a lect other than Standard Mandarin.
    — Imminent Chinese linguist Zhou Youguang has said that everyone’s mother tongue is a topolect, whereas China’s standard spoken language has long been the “teacher tongue.”

词形变化

topolects plural

词汇关系

衍生词
topolectal topolectology
相关词
chronolect dialect

词源

Combination of topo- (“place”) + -lect (“[language] variety”). Attested since the 1960s, but rare until its introduction by sinologist Victor Mair in 1991 to distinguish Chinese 方言 (fāngyán) from English dialect.
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