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Etymology

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Use of the compound element-lect as an independent noun.

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Noun

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lect (plurallects)

  1. (linguistics, sociolinguistics) A specific form of alanguage orlanguage cluster: a language or adialect.
    Synonyms:code,idiom,languoid,variety
    Hyponyms:acrolect,basilect,chronolect,dialect,ethnolect,geolect,idiolect,mesolect,regiolect,sociolect,sublect,topolect;more
    Meronyms:lexicon,grammar,sublect
    Coordinate term:register
    • 1980, Frederick B. Agard,The Genealogy of the French Language, published inContributions to historical linguistics,→ISBN, page222:
      These, together with (some) Romanshlects, belong to our West Rhaetian; the /ȫ/ also supported by twolects from the Ticino which by our criteria are NWIt, and by the partially umlautinglects of Lombardy which together with (some) Engadinelects belong to our East Rhaetian.

Usage notes

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  • The term is used when it is not possible or desirable to decide whether something is a distinctlanguage or only adialect of a language.

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Translations

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linguistics, sociolinguistics: a specific form of a language or language cluster: a language or a dialect

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