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A language variety with its own history and development, which is used by a religious community..
A religiolect is a language variety with its own history and development, which is used by a religious community.
For purposes of discussion and analysis, it is convenient to divide the history of the religiolect into the following periods: Pre-Islamic Judeo-Arabic, Early Judeo-Arabic (eighth/ninth to tenth centuries), Classical Judeo-Arabic (tenth and fifteenth centuries), and Contemporary Judeo-Arabic (twentieth century).
A concept that I find perfectly captures the essence of Norse spirituality is that of a "religiolect". Just as a lialect encodes a local variant of speech, this term does the same for religion, combining belief and practice in a discrete package that could be activated in particular places or social situations.
Creating an Indian nation or even just larger regional identifications with Indian states, remains quite a challenge. Thus, Mahatma Gandhi tried to develop what linguist Rocky Miranda calls a "middle language," accessible to Hindus and Muslims alike, e.g. by avoiding Sanskrit elements in his Hindi, while some Muslim intellectuals correspondingly reduced Arabic elements in their Urdu in order to bridge between the two closely related religiolects of Hindi and Urdu.
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Religiolect means A language variety with its own history and development, which is used by a religious community..
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A religiolect is a language variety with its own history and development, which is used by a religious community.
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