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rel'ic ar"ea

Ling.
(in dialect geography) an area isolated from the influences of any focal area and preserving older linguistic forms that have been lost in other regions. Cf. focal area, transition area.

Random House Unabridged Dictionary, Copyright © 1997, by Random House, Inc., on Infoplease.

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