communalect
English
Alternative forms
- communilect, communolect (both rare)
Etymology
Apparently from communa(l) + -lect.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kəˈmjuːnəˌlɛkt/
Audio (UK) (file)
Noun
communalect (plural communalects)
- (linguistics, especially Pacific linguistics) The linguistic variety (lect) spoken by a particular speech community.
- 1957 January 1, Harold Hickerson; Glen D. Turner; Nancy P. Hickerson, “Testing Procedures for Estimating Transfer of Information among Iroquois Dialects and Languages”, in International Journal of American Linguistics, volume 18, number 1, Douglas C. McMurtrie, DOI:, pages 1-8:
- 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 […]
- 1971, Andrew Pawley; Timoci Sayaba, “Fijian Dialect Divisions: Eastern and Western Fijian”, in The Journal of the Polynesian Society, volume 80, number 4, The Polynesian Society, pages 407-408:
- 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 […]
- 2018, Ethan E. Cochrane, “Ancient Fiji: Melting Pot of the Pacific”, in Ethan E. Cochrane, Terry L. Hunt, editors, The Oxford Handbook of Prehistoric Oceania, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 200:
- 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.
- Coordinate terms: sociolect, regiolect, topolect
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See also
- dialect
- language
- variety