distribution of languages'. When perceived as a sub-discipline of linguistics that incorporates contact linguistics, one definition appearing has been 'the study of languages and dialects in contact and in conflict with various societal, economic, ideological, political and other contemporary trends with regard to a particular geographic location and on a planetary scale'.

Various other terms and subdisciplines have been suggested, but none gained much currency, including:

* linguistic geography, which deals with regional linguistic

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