Regional variation in vocabulary is one of the foci of dialectology, a subfield of linguistics that examines the geographic distribution of specific words, along with distributions of different ...

Originally, the study of Dialectology was a sub-discipline of the study of sociolinguistics. Sociolinguistics can be traced back as far back as 5 BCE in India, however it was only really considered to ...

Linguists studying Varieties of English use many different techniques to describe, collect, analyse, and display their findings. Below are some of these techniques, and some examples of linguists who ...