Alloglot
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech adjective
Quick meaning: Alloglot is an adjective meaning (linguistics) Speaking a non-native language.
Meaning
(linguistics) Speaking a non-native language.
More Meanings
- (linguistics) One who speaks a non-native language.
Example Sentences
Except for this special measure in favour of the children of the Polish minors living in the north and the east of France, the treatment of foreign alloglot children in the French school system was not specifically different from that applied to national children.
The question is where the alloglots live, whether persons with the same linguistic background remain closely together in the same villages or suburbs of the cities and form alloglot islands where the respective language would have a majority or at least constitute a strong minority, or whether the clustering of languages follows different patterns (for example economic ones).
Word Forms
- alloglots
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include ablauting, linguolabial, oral, somniloquous, colloquial, sialoquent.
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