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Dialectology Definition & Meaning

dialectology
noun
  1. the branch of philology that is devoted to the study of dialects

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What does dialectology mean?
the branch of philology that is devoted to the study of dialects
What part of speech is dialectology?
Dialectology is a noun.

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