Similect

Noun

Definitions

1.NounA 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.

Synonyms

homolog comparative method homologue reconstructed language xenolect calque interdialect paralexicon simile sister language co-linguist contrastive linguistics

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