Languoid

//ˈlæŋɡwɔɪd// noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    Synonym of lect: a language, variety of a language, or group of languages.

    "And more recently, the terms languoid and doculect have been proposed (Cysouw and Good 2013) where languoid is any 'language-like object' and doculect is 'a linguistic variety as it is documented in a given resource' (p. 342). This term is ..."

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"And more recently, the terms languoid and doculect have been proposed (Cysouw and Good 2013) where languoid is any 'language-like object' and doculect is 'a linguistic variety as it is documented in a given resource' (p. 342). This term is ..."

Etymology

Blend of language + -oid, coined by linguist Jeff Good and Calvin Hendryx-Parker in 2006.

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