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  2. Linguistic areas of the Americas - Wikipedia

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    The Plains Linguistic Area, according to Sherzer (1973:773), is the "most recently constituted of the culture areas of North America (late eighteenth and nineteenth century)." Languages are Athabaskan , Algonquian , Siouan , Tanoan , Uto-Aztecan , and Tonkawa .

  3. American English regional vocabulary - Wikipedia

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    However many differences still hold and mark boundaries between different dialect areas, as shown below. From 2000 to 2005, for instance, The Dialect Survey queried North American English speakers' usage of a variety of linguistic items, including vocabulary items that vary by region. [2] These include: generic term for a sweetened carbonated ...

  4. List of garments having different names in American and ...

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    Image Description British English American English Longsleeve knit top jumper [1]: sweater [2] [3]: Sleeveless knit top sleeveless jumper, slipover, [4] knit tank top sweater vest [3]

  5. List of denim jeans brands - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of denim jeans brands. List. 7 for All Mankind; Dhaka jeans ; Aéropostale (clothing) Arizona Jean Co. Brittania Sportswear Ltd; Brutus Jeans; Buck Mason;

  6. Languages of North America - Wikipedia

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    North America is home to many language families and some language isolates.In the Arctic north, the Eskimo–Aleut languages are spoken from Alaska to Greenland.This group includes the Aleut language of the Aleutian Islands, the Yupik languages of Alaska and the Russian Far East, and the Inuit languages of Alaska, Yukon, the Northwest Territories, Nunavut, and Greenland.

  7. North American English regional phonology - Wikipedia

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    The 2006 Atlas of North American English identifies a "Southeastern super-region", in which all accents of the Southern States, as well as accents all along their regional margins, constitute a vast area of recent linguistic unity in certain respects: [46] namely, the movement of four vowel sounds (those in the words GOOSE, STRUT, GOAT, and ...

  8. List of language families - Wikipedia

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    This article is a list of language families. This list only includes primary language families that are accepted by the current academic consensus in the field of linguistics ; for language families that are not accepted by the current academic consensus in the field of linguistics, see the article " List of proposed language families ".

  9. Mesoamerican languages - Wikipedia

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    Mesoamerica is also an area of high linguistic diffusion in that long-term interaction among speakers of different languages through several millennia has resulted in the convergence of certain linguistic traits across disparate language families. The Mesoamerican sprachbund is commonly referred to as the Mesoamerican Linguistic Area.