religiolect
religiolect noun: a language variety with its own history and development, which is used by a religious community.
Noun
religiolect (plural religiolects)
- A language variety with its own history and development, which is used by a religious community.
- A religiolect is a language variety with its own history and development, which is used by a religious community.2012, Benjimin Hary, “Judeo-Arabic as a Mixed Language”, in Liesbeth Zack, Arie Schippers, editors, Middle Arabic and Mixed Arabic: Diachrony and Synchrony, Leiden; Boston: BRILL, page 125
- For purposes of discussion and analysis, it is convenient to divide the history of the religiolect into the following periods: Pre-Islamic Judeo-Arabic, Early Judeo-Arabic (eighth/ninth to tenth centuries), Classical Judeo-Arabic (tenth and fifteenth centuries), and Contemporary Judeo-Arabic...2016, Benjimin Hary, “'Arabi Dyālna (Our Arabic): The History and Politics of Judeo-Arabic”, in Anita Norich, Joshua L. Miller, editors, Languages of Modern Jewish Cultures: Comparative Perspectives...
Forms of religiolect
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Origin of religiolect
From religio- + lect, coined by Benjamin Hary, a professor of Hebrew and Judaic Studies at New York University.
Questions about religiolect
- What does religiolect mean?
- Religiolect means a language variety with its own history and development, which is used by a religious community.
- What part of speech is religiolect?
- Religiolect is a noun.
- What is the plural of religiolect?
- The plural of religiolect is religiolects.
Words near religiolect in the dictionary
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