Meaning of linguism | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Discrimination based on a person's language.
   uncountable
2. Competition among or unequal treatment of languages and their speaker communities.
   uncountable
3. Conversance with, or predilection for, (foreign) languages
   uncountable
4. Advocacy of languages on a regional basis
   uncountable

Examples

“1971 David D. Anderson, "Ahmed Ali and Twilight in Delhi: The genesis of a Pakistani novel," MAHFIL: A.Quarterly of South Asian Literature, Spring-Summer 1971. This time, however, the controversy […] dealt with linguism, the problem of, the multiplicity of competing languages in the subcontinent as well as the cultural and political, overtones of the continuing competition among them.”

CEFR level