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languoids

languoids is the plural of languoid.

Meaning of languoid

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

Questions about languoids

What is languoids the plural of?
Languoids is the plural of languoid.

Words near languoids in the dictionary

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

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