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communalect

noun
/kəˈmjuːnəˌlɛkt/UK/kəˈmjunəˌlɛkt/US

Etymology

Probably from communa(l) + -lect (suffix denoting a language variety).

  1. derived from commūnis
  2. derived from commūnālis
  3. borrowed from communal
  4. suffixed as communalect — “communal + lect”

Definitions

  1. Especially in Pacific linguistics

    Especially in Pacific linguistics: the lect (linguistic variety) spoken by a particular speech community.

    • Geographically contiguous communalects are often arranged into dialect chains, so that adjacent communalects share much in common, but communalects at either end of the chain may be quite different.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for communalect. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA