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Sound
Each Play button uses your device's default local English voice, or a natural local fallback. The selected voice name appears after playback. This is synthesized speech, not a source recording.
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noun
A linguistic feature that is recurrent in language varieties in a certain geographical area.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: uncommon
Qualifier: especially dialectology and language typology
Topics: human-sciences, linguistics, sciences
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
History
Blend of area + universal with Latinizing -o-. Coined by Benedikt Szmrecsanyi and Bernd Kortmann (2009), apparently after earlier angloversal.
