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communilect

communilect is the rare form 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]...

Forms of communilect

pluralcommunilects

Questions about communilect

What is communilect the rare form of?
Communilect is the rare form of communalect.

Words near communilect in the dictionary

  1. communicatory
  2. communicatrices
  3. communicatrix
  4. communicatrixes
  5. communicology
  6. communilect
  7. communilects
  8. communing
  9. communings
  10. communio ecclesiology
  11. communio-ecclesiology

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Adapted from Wiktionary: communilect (page history and authors); communalect (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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