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speech community

speech community noun: a group of people sharing a language, or a particular way of using that language.

Noun

speech community (plural speech communities)

  1. A group of people sharing a language, or a particular way of using that language
    • The phonetic laws always work without the consciousness of the speech community in which they act ; they are due wholly to physiological causes acting unknown to the will of the individual speaker.1897, William Pierce Shepard, A contribution to the history of the unaccented vowels in Old French, page 17
    • Another language of this group, Cantonese, probably ranks among the world's largest speech-communities.1933, Leonard Bloomfield, Language, page 44

speech community meaning in Tamil and Indonesian

speech community in Tamil

பேச்சுச் சமூகம்

speech community in Indonesian

group of people sharing a language or way of speaking
komunitas tutur, komunitas wicara, komunitas bahasa

Forms of speech community

pluralspeech communities
alternative formspeech-community

Origin of speech community

Probably a calque of German Sprachgemeinschaft.

Questions about speech community

What does speech community mean?
Speech community means a group of people sharing a language, or a particular way of using that language.
What is speech community in Tamil?
Speech community in Tamil is பேச்சுச் சமூகம். See Speech community meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is speech community?
Speech community is a noun.
What is the plural of speech community?
The plural of speech community is speech communities.

Words near speech community in the dictionary

  1. speech balloon
  2. speech balloons
  3. speech bubble
  4. speech bubbles
  5. speech communities
  6. speech community
  7. speech day
  8. speech days
  9. speech disfluencies
  10. speech disfluency
  11. speech disorder

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: speech community (page history and authors); speech community (Tamil Wiktionary) (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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