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similect

noun

Etymology

Coined by Anna Mauranen in a paper in 2012, from similar + -lect, modelled on dialect, etc.

  1. derived from similis
  2. derived from similaris
  3. derived from similaire
  4. suffixed as similect — “similar + lect”

Definitions

  1. A variety of a language spoken by people who have a different first language, with…

    A variety of a language spoken by people who have a different first language, with features transferred from the first language in parallel by individual speakers rather than by a cohesive group.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for similect. 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