speech community

speech com·mu·ni·ty

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Definitions of speech community words

noun speech community the aggregate of all the people who use a given language or dialect. 1
noun speech community a group of people geographically distributed so that there is no break in intelligibility from place to place. 1
noun speech community a community consisting of all the speakers of a particular language or dialect 0
noun speech community all the people speaking a particular language or dialect, whether in a single geographical area or dispersed throughout various regions 0

before 1930

One of the 10% newest English words

First recorded in 1930-35

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This term is known only to a narrow circle of people with rare knowledge. Only 2% of English native speakers know the meaning of this word.

According to our data most of word are more popular. This word is almost not used. It has a much more popular synonym.

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