idiolect

English

WOTD – 22 February 2011

Etymology

By surface analysis, idio- +‎ -lect.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈɪd.i.əʊ̯.lɛkt/, /ˈɪd.i.ə.lɛkt/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈɪd.i.ə.lɛkt/
• (New Zealand) IPA^(key): /ˈɘ.di.ɐʉ.lekt/

• Audio (General Australian):

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Noun

idiolect (plural idiolects)

1. (linguistics) The language variant used by a specific individual.

   Coordinate terms: dialect, familect, regiolect, ethnolect, ecolect, sociolect

   • 2012, John Mullan, What Matters in Jane Austen?: Twenty Crucial Puzzles Solved, page 3:

     She perfected the fictional idiolect, fashioning habits of speaking for even minor characters that rendered them utterly singular.

Derived terms

• idiolectic
• idiolectical

 

Related terms

• idioculture

 

Translations

variant of a language used by a particular individual

• Afrikaans: idiolek
• Arabic: لَهْجَةٌ شَخْصِيَّة f (lahjatun šaḵṣiyya), كتبة sg or f
• Catalan: idiolecte (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 個人習語 / 个人习语 (gèrén xíyǔ)

• Czech: idiolekt (cs) m
• Danish: idiolekt c
• Finnish: yksilömurre, idiolekti (fi)
• French: idiolecte (fr) m
• German: Idiolekt (de) m, Individualsprachgebrauch m
• Greek: ιδιόλεκτος (el) f (idiólektos), ιδιόλεκτο (el) n (idiólekto)
• Hungarian: idiolektus (hu)
• Icelandic: einkamállýska f
• Indonesian: idiolek (id)
• Irish: canúint aonair f, urlabhra aonair f, idióileict f, féinchanúint f
• Italian: idioletto m
• Japanese: 個人語 (こじんご, kojingo)
• Korean: 개인어(個人語) (gaeineo)
• Malay: idiolek
• Maori: reo-ā-tangata
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: idiolekt m

  Nynorsk: idiolekt m or f

• Polish: idiolekt (pl) m, język osobniczy (pl) m, mowa osobnicza f
• Portuguese: idioleto (pt) m
• Romanian: idiolect (ro) n
• Russian: идиоле́кт (ru) m (idiolékt)
• Spanish: idiolecto (es) m
• Swedish: idiolekt (sv) c
• Tagalog: sariwika
• Turkish: bireydil
• Ukrainian: ідіоле́кт m (idiolékt)
• Welsh: priodiaith f

Dutch

Etymology

Internationalism; see English idiolect, from which it may be borrowed.

Pronunciation

• Audio:

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Noun

idiolect n (plural idiolecten, diminutive idiolectje n)

1. (linguistics) idiolect

Further reading

• idiolect on the Dutch Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^nl

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from English idiolect.

Noun

idiolect n (plural idiolecte)

1. idiolect

Declension

	singular			plural
	indefinite	definite		indefinite	definite
nominative-accusative	idiolect	idiolectul		idiolecte	idiolectele
genitive-dative	idiolect	idiolectului		idiolecte	idiolectelor
vocative	idiolectule			idiolectelor