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ethnolects

ethnolects is the plural of ethnolect.

Meaning of ethnolect

Noun

ethnolect (plural ethnolects)

  1. A language variety specific to an ethnic group.
    • AAVE is an ethnolect of African Americans.

Questions about ethnolects

What is ethnolects the plural of?
Ethnolects is the plural of ethnolect.

Words near ethnolects in the dictionary

  1. ethnoknowledge
  2. ethnoknown
  3. ethnol
  4. ethnolect
  5. ethnolectal
  6. ethnolects
  7. ethnolinguist
  8. ethnolinguistic
  9. ethnolinguistically
  10. ethnolinguistics
  11. ethnolinguists

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