Gbe languages and Sprachbund

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Difference between Gbe languages and Sprachbund

Gbe languages vs. Sprachbund

The Gbe languages (pronounced) form a cluster of about twenty related languages stretching across the area between eastern Ghana and western Nigeria. A sprachbund ("federation of languages") – also known as a linguistic area, area of linguistic convergence, diffusion area or language crossroads – is a group of languages that have common features resulting from geographical proximity and language contact.

Similarities between Gbe languages and Sprachbund

Gbe languages and Sprachbund have 9 things in common (in Unionpedia): Agglutinative language, Areal feature, Dialect continuum, Isolating language, Language, Stop consonant, Syllable, Tone (linguistics), Topic and comment.

Agglutinative language

An agglutinative language is a type of synthetic language with morphology that primarily uses agglutination.

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Areal feature

In linguistics, areal features are elements shared by languages or dialects in a geographic area, particularly when the languages are not descended from a common ancestor language.

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Dialect continuum

A dialect continuum or dialect chain is a spread of language varieties spoken across some geographical area such that neighbouring varieties differ only slightly, but the differences accumulate over distance so that widely separated varieties are not mutually intelligible.

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Isolating language

An isolating language is a type of language with a very low morpheme per word ratio and no inflectional morphology whatsoever.

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Language

Language is a system that consists of the development, acquisition, maintenance and use of complex systems of communication, particularly the human ability to do so; and a language is any specific example of such a system.

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Stop consonant

In phonetics, a stop, also known as a plosive or oral occlusive, is a consonant in which the vocal tract is blocked so that all airflow ceases.

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Syllable

A syllable is a unit of organization for a sequence of speech sounds.

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Tone (linguistics)

Tone is the use of pitch in language to distinguish lexical or grammatical meaning – that is, to distinguish or to inflect words.

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Topic and comment

In linguistics, the topic, or theme, of a sentence is what is being talked about, and the comment (rheme or focus) is what is being said about the topic.

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What Gbe languages and Sprachbund have in common
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Gbe languages and Sprachbund Comparison

Gbe languages has 147 relations, while Sprachbund has 113. As they have in common 9, the Jaccard index is 3.46% = 9 / (147 + 113).

References

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