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heritage speakers

heritage speakers is the plural of heritage speaker.

Meaning of heritage speaker

Noun

heritage speaker (plural heritage speakers)

  1. Someone who speaks a heritage language (“a minority language that one acquires as a first language but uses and/or is exposed to less later in life”).
    • At UCLA, which is emerging as a leader in the field, separate classes already are available for heritage speakers of Chinese, Korean, Russian and Spanish.2002 November 27, Stuart Silverstein, “A Heads-Up Approach to Teaching Spanish”, in Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles, L.A.: Los Angeles Times Communications LLC, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the...

Questions about heritage speakers

What is heritage speakers the plural of?
Heritage speakers is the plural of heritage speaker.

Words near heritage speakers in the dictionary

  1. heritage railway
  2. heritage railways
  3. heritage river
  4. heritage rivers
  5. heritage speaker
  6. heritage speakers
  7. heritage tomato
  8. heritage tomatoes
  9. heritage tree
  10. heritages
  11. heritance

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Adapted from Wiktionary: heritage speakers (page history and authors); heritage speaker (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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