Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

linguism

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: lin-guism
IPA

11

Scrabble Score

8

Letters

2

Syllables

7

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Discrimination based on a person's language.

Uncountable

noun

Competition among or unequal treatment of languages and their speaker communities.

Uncountable

noun

Conversance with, or predilection for, (foreign) languages

Uncountable

noun

Advocacy of languages on a regional basis

Uncountable

Example Sentences

"1971 David D. Anderson, "Ahmed Ali and Twilight in Delhi: The genesis of a Pakistani novel," MAHFIL: A.Quarterly of South Asian Literature, Spring-Summer 1971. This time, however, the controversy […] dealt with linguism, the problem of, the multiplicity of competing languages in the subcontinent as well as the cultural and political, overtones of the continuing competition among them."

Etymology

Back-formation from linguist + -ism.

Word Breakdown

Suffix: -ism

Usage

Uncountable

Subject

Wiktionary places this term in Linguistics.

Frequently Paired Words

linguicism linguisticism

Questions

What does linguism mean?: Discrimination based on a person's language.
Where does linguism come from?: Back-formation from linguist + -ism.

How to pronounce linguism

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