sprachbund

Etymology
Borrowed from, from (ultimately from ) +  (from , ultimately from ). The German word was coined by Russian linguist (1890–1938) in a paper he presented to the inaugural  in 1928 as a  of the Russian term, which he had introduced in a 1923 article.

Noun

 * 1)  A group of languages sharing a number of areal features (similar grammar, vocabulary, etc.) which are primarily due to language contact rather than cognation.

Translations

 * Afrikaans: spraakbond
 * Arabic:
 * Egyptian Arabic: شبراخبوند
 * Basque: sprachbund
 * Catalan: àrea lingüística
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 語言聯盟
 * Czech: jazykový svaz
 * Dutch: taalbond, Sprachbund
 * Estonian: keeleliit
 * Finnish: kielisikermä
 * French:
 * Galician: área lingüística
 * German:
 * Hebrew:
 * Italian: lega linguistica
 * Japanese: 言語連合
 * Kazakh: тілдік одақ
 * Korean:
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål: språkbunt,
 * Nynorsk: sprachbund
 * Persian:
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese: área linguística
 * Russian: языково́й сою́з, шпрахбу́нд
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: јѐзичкӣ са́вез
 * Roman: jèzičkī sávez
 * Spanish: sprachbund
 * Turkish:
 * Ukrainian: мо́вний сою́з