communalect

Definitions

Especially in Pacific linguistics: the lect (linguistic variety) spoken by a particular speech community.

Examples

“The purpose of a six-week field trip⟳ in Ontario, Canada, and New York State was to employ⟳ the "test⟳ the informant" method, utilizing magnetic recording machinery, in determining the intelligibility relationships among seven Iroquois communalects: Seneca, Cayuga, Onondaga, Oneida, Mohawk, Tuscarora, and Cherokee; […]”

“No one knows exactly how many Fijian communalects there are, but it is certain that the total number⟳ runs into the hundreds. Fijians have⟳ names for many of them, particularly where the communalect coincides with the speech of a single village, island or tikina, […]”

“Geographically contiguous communalects are often arranged into dialect chains, so that adjacent communalects share⟳ much in common, but communalects at either end⟳ of the chain may be quite different.”

CEFR level