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natiolect

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables
na-ti-olect
IPA
11
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
3
Syllables
8
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A national standard variety of a language spoken in more than one region.

Etymology

From natio(n) + -lect. The first component is from Latin nātiōn(em), with the second abbreviated from dialect, from Ancient Greek. Coined by Godelieve Laureys in 1997.

Origin

Word Breakdown

Inflected Forms

natiolects (plural)

Questions

What does natiolect mean?
A national standard variety of a language spoken in more than one region.
Where does natiolect come from?
It is traced to Latin.

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