Meaning of speech community | Babel Free
Equivalents
Deutsch
Sprachgemeinschaft
Français
communauté linguistique
Bahasa Indonesia
komunitas bahasa
한국어
언어공동체
Examples
“The phonetic laws always work without the consciousness of the speech community in which they act ; they are due wholly to physiological causes acting unknown to the will of the individual speaker.”
“Another language of this group, Cantonese, probably ranks among the world's largest speech-communities.”
“Research indicates that men and women in the mainstream US culture tend to form separate speech communities.”
CEFR level
B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.
See also
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