There is relatively little linguistic variation among these villages.
Linguistic geography - deals with regional linguistic variations within languages.
The use of the article is considered mandatory when using this linguistic variation.
Dialects are linguistic variations which are based on the way a certain community of people speak.
Settlements attracted people from all walks of life and created highly diverse linguistic variation, but there were still families that lived in almost total isolation.
In this model of linguistic variation, stances are an important middle step between linguistic variables and a style or characteristic social group.
Despite their linguistic variations, Lai language should be studied in both of them because they are intertwined.
Ethnicity, therefore, has the potential to dramatically influence linguistic variation in ways that reflect a social dimension of language usage.
The result of this is that linguistic variation and change can appear to be unidimensional.