Language continuum: when two or more different languages or dialects merge into each other without a definable boundary.
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Within the last 100 years, the increasing dominance of nation-states and their standard languages has been steadily eliminating the non-standard dialects of which these language continua were formed, making the boundaries ever more abrupt and well-defined.
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| 1917 |
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| dialects in Frisian province of NL |
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| Nethersaxon dialects |
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| Flemmish |
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