Extralinguistic

//ˌɛkstɹəlɪŋˈɡwɪstɪk// adj

adj ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Outside the realm of linguistics. not-comparable

    "I will limit myself to the Tocharian component of this article, and will further concentrate on the linguistic aspects and not on extralinguistic conclusions."

Adjective
  1. 1
    not included within the realm of language wordnet

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"I will limit myself to the Tocharian component of this article, and will further concentrate on the linguistic aspects and not on extralinguistic conclusions."

Etymology

From extra- + linguistic.

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