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Hancock, Ian F. – Anthropological Linguistics, 1975
Explores the possible origins of Malacca Creole Portuguese, and compares and contrasts Papia Kristang with other related creoles. (AM)
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Creoles, Diachronic Linguistics, Indonesian Languages

Kubler, Cornelius C. – Journal of Chinese Linguistics, 1986
A dialect survey of the Penghu Islands concluded that the Penghu dialects belong to the Southern Min; variation within the dialects is considerable in terms of changed tones, certain finals, and some lexical items; and the Penghu dialects can be further divided into two large groups. (Author/CB)
Descriptors: Chinese, Comparative Analysis, Distinctive Features (Language), Foreign Countries
Black, Paul – Cahiers de l'Institut de Linguistique de Louvain, 1973
As the several specific applications in this paper demonstrate, multidimensional scaling provides a long-needed means for investigating and describing spatial relationships among speech varieties. It is especially applicable to the relationships among varieties of a single language (or more properly, linguistic "cline"), which, as is…
Descriptors: African Languages, American Indian Languages, Bikol, Comparative Analysis