grapholect

grapholect

English

Etymology

Blend of grapheme +‎ dialect, coined by linguist Einar Haugen in 1964.

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Noun

grapholect (plural grapholects)

1. (linguistics) A written variant of a language, analogous to a spoken dialect of a language.
   • 1993, Gajendra K. Verma, Inequality and teacher education: an international perspective‎, page 188:

     The grapholect of Standard English is not the exclusive system that arbiters of cultural purity wish to 'correct' us into believing

   • 1993, MHM Heng, Three Dimensions of Information Technology Applications: A Historical Perspective:

     A grapholect is a transdialectical language formed by deep commitment to writing. An example of grapholect is the (written) Chinese language. Almost any Standard language, such as Standard Dutch or Standard English is a grapholect.

Translations

a written variant of a language

Arabic: please add this translation if you can Chinese: Mandarin: (no exact term exists) 書寫的方言, 书写的方言 (shūxiě de fāngyán) Finnish: kirjakieli (fi) French: grapholecte (fr) m German: Grapholekt m Hindi: please add this translation if you can

Italian: please add this translation if you can Japanese: please add this translation if you can Korean: please add this translation if you can Portuguese: grafoleto m Russian: графоле́кт m (grafolékt) Spanish: grafolecto m Vietnamese: please add this translation if you can