Definitions
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- noun A
language variety specific to anethnic group
Etymologies
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Examples
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Based on a large-scale survey, this paper argues that the speech of American Jews should be analyzed not as a separate ethnolect or language variety but as English with a repertoire of distinctive linguistic features stemming from Yiddish, Hebrew, Aramaic, and other sources.
COMD News Callier Library 2010
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He says the the ethnolect, a variety of a language spoken by an ethnic subgroup, "is used consciously to separate the speakers from Anglo-Australian values, and at its extreme also to separate the speakers from some parts of their own culture".
Wimmera Mail Times 2009
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He says the the ethnolect, a variety of a language spoken by an ethnic subgroup, "is used consciously to separate the speakers from Anglo-Australian values, and at its extreme also to separate the speakers from some parts of their own culture".
The Advertiser 2009
MaryW commented on the word ethnolect
Jennifer Sclafani, The Idolect of Donald Trump, Scientific American Mind blog, March 16, 2016October 10, 2016