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community languages

community languages is the plural of community language.

Meaning of community language

Noun

community language (plural community languages)

  1. 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.
  2. 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...

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Noun capitalized: Community languages

Community languages

  1. (plural) plural of Community language

Questions about community languages

What is community languages the plural of?
Community languages is the plural of community language.
What part of speech is community languages?
Community languages is a noun.

Words near community languages in the dictionary

  1. community groups
  2. community immunity
  3. community interest companies
  4. community interest company
  5. community language
  6. community languages
  7. community manager
  8. community managers
  9. community note
  10. community noted
  11. community notes

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Adapted from Wiktionary: community languages (page history and authors); Community languages (page history and authors); community language (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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