familect
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[edit]familect (plural familects)
- (linguistics) The language variant used by a family when speaking among themselves.
- Synonyms: ecolect, familiolect
- 1973, Robert Brodie MacLeod, edited by David Krech, The MacLeod symposium, June 2-3, 1972, Dept. of Psychology, Cornell University, page 75:
- A familect is, as I mentioned before, a kind of microdialect.
- 2013 July 19, Harriet Powney, “Speaking it in the family”, in The Guardian[1]:
- David Crystal, who wrote the book's afterword, expanded on what he described as these dialects of the home, or familects, in his blog: [...]
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