lect
A specific form of a language or language cluster: a language or a dialect.
Noun
- A specific form of a language or language cluster: a language or a dialect.
- Meronyms: lexicon, grammar, sublect
- These, together with (some) Romansh lects, belong to our West Rhaetian; the /ȫ/ also supported by two lects from the Ticino which by our criteria are NWIt, and by the partially umlauting lects of Lombardy which together...
Synonyms: code idiom languoid variety isolect
Coordinate Terms: register
Origin
Use of the compound element -lect as an independent noun.