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Speech community

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    A group of people sharing a language, or a particular way of using that language

    "The phonetic laws always work without the consciousness of the speech community in which they act ; they are due wholly to physiological causes acting unknown to the will of the individual speaker."

  2. 2
    people sharing a given language or dialect wordnet

Etymology

Probably a calque of German Sprachgemeinschaft.

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