Meaning

1 senses
  1. A variety of a language spoken by people who have a different first language, with features transferred from the first language in parallel by individual speakers rather than by a cohesive group.

Origin

Coined by Anna Mauranen in a paper in 2012, from similar + -lect, modelled on dialect, etc

Coined by Anna Mauranen in a paper in 2012, from similar + -lect, modelled on dialect, etc.

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Forms

plural: similects
Singularsimilect
Pluralsimilects

regular

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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