community language
community language noun: an unofficial language spoken by a minority of people.
Noun (1)
community language (plural community languages)
- An unofficial language spoken by a minority of people.
- Commonly spoken community languages in Australia include Cantonese, Mandarin, Vietnamese, Arabic, Greek, Italian, indigenous languages, and so on.
- An unofficial language spoken as a local lingua franca among people of diverse ethno-linguistic backgrounds.
- 1985 UNESCO Regional Office for Education in Africa. 1985. African community languages and their use in literacy and education : a regional survey. Dakar : UNESCO.
Such languages, which serve the purposes of general communication over fairly wide areas within countries, are what are referred to as...
- 1985 UNESCO Regional Office for Education in Africa. 1985. African community languages and their use in literacy and education : a regional survey. Dakar : UNESCO.
Noun (2) capitalized: Community language
Community language (plural Community languages)
- Any of the official languages of the European Union.
Forms of community language
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| plural | Community languages |
Questions about community language
- What does community language mean?
- Community language means an unofficial language spoken by a minority of people.
- What part of speech is community language?
- Community language is a noun.
- What is the plural of community language?
- The plural of community language is community languages.
Words near community language in the dictionary
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