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relic area

relic area

noun Linguistics.
(in dialect geography) an area isolated from the influences of any focal area and preserving older linguistic forms that have been lost in other regions.


Origin:
1950–55
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Relic area is always a great word to know.
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a unit within a language, such as a word or base; vocabulary item
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