The Role of Dialectological Atlases on Studying the Historical-Linguistic Features of the World Languages

Abstract

Linguistic atlases are a collection of maps that reflect the phonetic, lexical and grammatical features of each language spoken in different geographies, as well as dialects, but also reflect the changes in the current phonetic, lexical and grammatical level of these dialects with a number of symbols, signs at the same time. It is possible to determine the dialect differences of the language by region by means of these atlases and to determine the language boundaries by revealing the differences and interactions between these dialects. Dialectological atlases can provide a wide range of opportunities for the study of different language variants depending on the influence of geographical, political, economic, ethno-cultural and social factors. In this regard, dialectological atlases are very valuable as a primary source for obtaining raw information for various studies. Although the preparation of dialectological atlases seems to be the main object of philological research, the studies show that the preparation of these atlases within geolinguistics includes different fields such as geography, cartography, statistics and history.