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communalects

communalects is the plural of communalect.

Meaning of communalect

Noun

communalect (plural communalects)

  1. Especially in Pacific linguistics: the lect (linguistic variety) spoken by a particular speech community.
    • 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...1957 January, Harold Hickerson, Glen D. Turner, Nancy P. Hickerson, “Testing Procedures for Estimating Transfer of Information among Iroquois Dialects and Languages”, in C[harles] F[rederick]...

Questions about communalects

What is communalects the plural of?
Communalects is the plural of communalect.

Words near communalects in the dictionary

  1. communal bin
  2. communal bins
  3. communal shower
  4. communal showers
  5. communalect
  6. communalects
  7. communalisation
  8. communalise
  9. communalised
  10. communalises
  11. communalising

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