Checking saved dictionary data and trusted language sources. This will stop automatically if a source does not respond.
/ˈfæm.ɪˌlɛkt/ · noun
(linguistics) 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: [...]
Some followers even tweet back in aliebn-speak: a spirit of friendly linguistic play that's more like a familect than a stuffy Oxford Common Room.
If a familect exists within a family unit, then an online community’s fanilect expands exponentially, like invisible strings across distance and time.
Use familect when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Familect means (linguistics) The language variant used by a family when speaking among themselves..
Common synonyms include ecolect, familiolect, microdialect.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
Near-synonym: microdialect
FreeDictionaryAPI.com / Wiktionary · Original source · CC BY-SA 4.0
Dictionary data is provided by FreeDictionaryAPI.com and sourced from Wiktionary under its stated license.