multiethnolectal
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
23
Scrabble Score
16
Letters
5
Syllables
11
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Relating to a multiethnolect.
Example Sentences
- "For instance, some speakers of Danish ethnic majority background are frequent users of multiethnolectal features, and some speakers with minority ethnic background never use these features as part of their repertoire."
- "In the phrase 'ida(g) vi lovade' (today we promised), typical Scanian intonation would gradually decline across the phrase and include two peaks and troughs. In the multiethnolectal style, declination was often absent. Additionally, three contours occur in the multiethnolectal phrase instead of two in the standard."
- "The results suggest that the quotative system in contemporary multiethnolectal Bernese German is shaped by a range of social and linguistic constraints, such as the presence or absence of quotative marker so, presence or absence of a quotative verb, presence or absence of a subject, speaker gender and speaker ethnicity."
- "The multiethnolectal urban contact dialects that can emerge under such favorable conditions, can take on two different forms: they can constitute multilingual mixed languages that integrate different contact languages, or new vernaculars of a majority language of the larger society."
Etymology
From multi- + ethnolectal.
Word Breakdown
Inflected Forms
more multiethnolectal (comparative)
most multiethnolectal (superlative)