💡 Words with a Similar Meaning to "Community language"
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| Word | Definition |
|---|---|
| minority languagenoun | (sociolinguistics) A language spoken by a minority of the population of a territory. |
| auxiliary languagenoun | Any language (whether constructed or natural), such as Volapük, Esperanto, Swahili, French, Russian or English, used or intended to be used (locally, regionally, nationally or internationally) for intercommunication by speakers of various other languages. |
| speech communitynoun | (linguistics) A group of people sharing a language, or a particular way of using that language |
| vernacularnoun | The language of a people or a national language. |
| contact languagenoun | (linguistics) A language that influences another, especially because it is understood by a relevant portion of the speech community. |
| flashnoun | A sudden, short, temporary burst of light. |
| antilanguagenoun | (linguistics) A language used by a social group to prevent outsiders from understanding it. |
| communalectnoun | (linguistics) Especially in Pacific linguistics: the lect (linguistic variety) spoken by a particular speech community. |
| tonguagenoun | (nonstandard, rare) Language; spoken language, as opposed to other forms of language (body language, written language, etc.). |
| link languagenoun | A common language linking various people groups or ethnicities, where the adopted language is not a native language of any of the speakers using it; a lingua franca. |
| metrolingualismnoun | (linguistics) The use of language by diverse ethnic and cultural groups in a shared urban environment |
| macrolanguagenoun | (linguistics) A "language" by common usage, which is in fact a dialect continuum consisting of widely varying varieties that may be distinct languages by the criterion of mutual intelligibility. |
| clanspeaknoun | (rare, chiefly fantasy) The language or dialect of a certain clan. |
| constructed languagenoun | (linguistics) A human language that has been consciously devised by an individual or a group, as opposed to having naturally evolved as part of a culture like a natural language. |
| second languagenoun | A language that is spoken by someone but is not their mother tongue. |
| international auxiliary languagenoun | (linguistics) A language intended to be used by people who do not share a common language. |
| demolectnoun | The community language used by the people of a country. |
| ethnolectnoun | A language variety specific to an ethnic group. |
| killer languagenoun | (linguistics) A dominant and prestigious language which gradually causes extinction of other, especially minor languages. |
| subvarietynoun | A secondary or subsidiary variety. |
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