Communalect

//kəˈmjuːnəˌlɛkt//

Synonyms for "communalect"

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coordinate

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Translations

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Finnish

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  • yhteisön kieli noun (lect (linguistic variety) spoken by a particular community)

Macedonian

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  • ја́зик на зае́дница noun (lect (linguistic variety) spoken by a particular community)

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The purpose of a six-week field trip in Ontario, Canada, and New York State was to employ the "test the informant" method, utilizing magnetic recording machinery, in determining the intelligibility relationships among seven Iroquois communalects: Seneca, Cayuga, Onondaga, Oneida, Mohawk, Tuscarora, and Cherokee; […]

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No one knows exactly how many Fijian communalects there are, but it is certain that the total number runs into the hundreds. Fijians have names for many of them, particularly where the communalect coincides with the speech of a single village, island or tikina, […]

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Geographically contiguous communalects are often arranged into dialect chains, so that adjacent communalects share much in common, but communalects at either end of the chain may be quite different.

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