Re: Beijing, Zhongguo, etc. (was Re: 'out-' affix in conlangs?)

> Ollock Ackeop <ollock@...> wrote:
>
> ...I feel compelled to seek a reason for these dramatic
> modifications in the northern topolects."
My first encounter with the word 'topolect.'  Is there such a word
as 'ethnolect,' meaning the dialect spoken by a specific people?

Charlie