linguistic geography

1. 1.

   the study of the geographical distribution of linguistic features

   Synonymsdialect geography

   Broaderlinguistics

Questions about linguistic geography

What does linguistic geography mean?

linguistic geography means "the study of the geographical distribution of linguistic features".

What is another word for linguistic geography?

Close synonyms include dialect geography. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is linguistic geography a common word?

linguistic geography is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.