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alloglot

alloglot adjective: speaking a non-native language.

Adjective

alloglot (not comparable)

  1. Speaking a non-native language.
    • Except for this special measure in favour of the children of the Polish minors living in the north and the east of France, the treatment of foreign alloglot children in the French school system was not specifically different from that applied to national children.2007, Geneviève Zarate, Handbook of Multilingualism and Multiculturalism

Noun

alloglot (plural alloglots)

  1. One who speaks a non-native language.
    • The question is where the alloglots live, whether persons with the same linguistic background remain closely together in the same villages or suburbs of the cities and form alloglot islands where the respective language would have a majority or at least constitute a strong minority, or whether the...2008, Monica Barni, Mapping Linguistic Diversity in Multicultural Contexts, page 197

Forms of alloglot

pluralalloglots

Origin of alloglot

Borrowed from French alloglote, equivalent to allo- + -glot.

Words formed from alloglot

Questions about alloglot

What does alloglot mean?
Alloglot means speaking a non-native language.
What part of speech is alloglot?
Alloglot can be an adjective or a noun.

Words near alloglot in the dictionary

  1. allogenomes
  2. allogenomic
  3. allogenomics
  4. allogenous
  5. alloglaucoside
  6. alloglot
  7. alloglots
  8. alloglottographies
  9. alloglottography
  10. allografic
  11. allograft

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