Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

languoid

/ˈlæŋɡwɔɪd/

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: lan-guoid
IPA: /ˈlæŋɡwɔɪd/

10

Scrabble Score

8

Letters

2

Syllables

8

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Synonym of lect: a language, variety of a language, or group of languages.

Example Sentences

"And more recently, the terms languoid and doculect have been proposed (Cysouw and Good 2013) where languoid is any 'language-like object' and doculect is 'a linguistic variety as it is documented in a given resource' (p. 342). This term is ..."

Etymology

Blend of language + -oid, coined by linguist Jeff Good and Calvin Hendryx-Parker in 2006.

Inflected Forms

languoids (plural)

Synonyms

lect

Questions

How do you pronounce languoid?: The recorded pronunciation is /ˈlæŋɡwɔɪd/.
What does languoid mean?: Synonym of lect: a language, variety of a language, or group of languages.
Where does languoid come from?: Blend of language + -oid, coined by linguist Jeff Good and Calvin Hendryx-Parker in 2006.

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