linguistic landscape
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.62 in modern English
27
Scrabble Score
19
Letters
5
Syllables
12
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
The totality of written language visible within a certain area.
noun
The vocabulary that makes up a language.
Example Sentences
- "And although the Hong Kong linguistic landscape has Romanized Chinese, for example in business names, bilingual Chinese students had expressed to me on many occasions that they generally ignore English text, whether transliteration or translation."
- "The most outstanding feature of the linguistic landscape of India is the fact that, as enlisted in the Eighth Schedule of the Constitution, there are the following 15 well developed major languages in the country."
- "No intelligent man or woman would use the word `bloke.' It is a gutter expression, destitute of the least claim to recognition, a blur on the linguistic landscape, and a standing advertisement of Australian bad language."
- "Particles have always been a problematic and usually neglected area within the linguistic landscape."