Meaning of familect | Babel Free

Definitions

The language variant used by a family when speaking among themselves.

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Examples

“Near-synonym: microdialect”

“A familect is, as I mentioned before, a kind of microdialect.”

“David Crystal, who wrote the book's afterword, expanded on what he described as these dialects of the home, or familects, in his blog: [...]”

“Some followers even tweet back in aliebn-speak: a spirit of friendly linguistic play that's more like a familect than a stuffy Oxford Common Room.”

“If a familect exists within a family unit, then an online community’s fanilect expands exponentially, like invisible strings across distance and time.”

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