familect

noun
/ˈfæm.ɪˌlɛkt/UK

Etymology

From family + -lect.

  1. derived from familia
  2. inherited from famylye
  3. formed as familect — “family + -lect

Definitions

  1. The language variant used by a family when speaking among themselves.

    • Near-synonym: microdialect
    • A familect is, as I mentioned before, a kind of microdialect.
    • David Crystal, who wrote the book's afterword, expanded on what he described as these dialects of the home, or familects, in his blog: [...]

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for familect. 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