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linguistic imbalance

noun

Definitions

  1. The levels of official use or representation of languages that are perceived not to…

    The levels of official use or representation of languages that are perceived not to reflect their use in the population.

    • Before the emergence of democracy in South Africa, the apartheid regime had brought linguistic imbalance.

  2. The differential in skills of a polyglot among the languages they know.

  3. The use of terminology in a language that treats different social categories (such as…

    The use of terminology in a language that treats different social categories (such as gender) unequally.

    • This linguistic imbalance denies the woman certain privileges, a bias phenomenon that is recurrent in language.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

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

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