Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

community language

Word Rarity Uncommon

Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.90 in modern English

Syllables: com-mu-ni-ty lan-guage
IPA

28

Scrabble Score

17

Letters

5

Syllables

12

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

An unofficial language spoken by a minority of people.

noun

An unofficial language spoken as a local lingua franca among people of diverse ethno-linguistic backgrounds.

noun

Any of the official languages of the European Union.

Example Sentences

"Commonly spoken community languages in Australia include Cantonese, Mandarin, Vietnamese, Arabic, Greek, Italian, indigenous languages, and so on."
"1985 UNESCO Regional Office for Education in Africa. 1985. African community languages and their use in literacy and education : a regional survey. Dakar : UNESCO. Such languages, which serve the purposes of general communication over fairly wide areas within countries, are what are referred to as the community languages of Africa."

Inflected Forms

community languages (plural)

Questions

What does community language mean?: An unofficial language spoken by a minority of people.

How to pronounce community language

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