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languoid

/ˈlæŋɡwɔɪd/

languoid noun: synonym of lect: a language, variety of a language, or group of languages.

Noun

languoid (plural languoids)

  1. Synonym of lect: a language, variety of a language, or group of languages.
    • And more recently, the terms languoid and doculect have been proposed (Cysouw and Good 2013) where languoid is any 'language-like object' and doculect is 'a linguistic variety as it is documented in a given resource' (p. 342). This term is ...2015, Keith Allan, The Routledge Handbook of Linguistics, Routledge, →ISBN, page 391
    Synonyms:
    lect

Synonyms of languoid

Forms of languoid

plurallanguoids

Origin of languoid

Blend of language + -oid, coined by linguist Jeff Good and Calvin Hendryx-Parker in 2006.

Questions about languoid

What does languoid mean?
Languoid means synonym of lect: a language, variety of a language, or group of languages.
What part of speech is languoid?
Languoid is a noun.
How do you pronounce languoid?
Languoid is pronounced /ˈlæŋɡwɔɪd/.
What is the plural of languoid?
The plural of languoid is languoids.

Words near languoid in the dictionary

  1. languishness
  2. languisht
  3. languist
  4. languistics
  5. languists
  6. languoid
  7. languoids
  8. languor
  9. languored
  10. languoring
  11. languorous

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