Communalect
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Pronunciation /kəˈmjuːnəˌlɛkt/ · Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Communalect is a noun meaning (linguistics) Especially in Pacific linguistics: the lect (linguistic variety) spoken by a particular speech community.
Meaning
(linguistics) Especially in Pacific linguistics: the lect (linguistic variety) spoken by a particular speech community.
Example Sentences
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.
No one knows exactly how many Fijian communalects there are, but it is certain that the total number runs into the hundreds. Fijians have names for many of them, particularly where the communalect coincides with the speech of a single village, island or tikina, […]
The purpose of a six-week field trip in Ontario, Canada, and New York State was to employ the "test the informant" method, utilizing magnetic recording machinery, in determining the intelligibility relationships among seven Iroquois communalects: Seneca, Cayuga, Onondaga, Oneida, Mohawk, Tuscarora, and Cherokee; […]
Word Forms
- communalects
- communilect
- communolect
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include ethnolect, demolect, religiolect, regionalect, familect, geolect.
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