Usually means: Language variant used by group.
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  1. sociolect: Merriam-Webster
  2. sociolect: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. sociolect: Collins English Dictionary
  4. sociolect: Wiktionary
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  6. sociolect: Dictionary.com
  7. Sociolect: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
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▸ noun:  (sociolinguistics) The variant of language used by a social group such as a socioeconomic class, an ethnic group, an age group, etc.

Similar:
socspeak, sociolinguistics, sociolx, socio, socioling, chronolect, socioeconomics, sociolinguist, sociologese, literary language, more...

Opposite:
idiolect, individual language, personal dialect

Types:
Standard English, Black English, Spanglish, Texan English, Valley Girl English, Geordie, Scouse, Cockney, more...

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Similar:
socspeak, sociolinguistics, sociolx, socio, socioling, chronolect, socioeconomics, sociolinguist, sociologese, literary language, more...

Opposite:
idiolect, individual language, personal dialect

Types:
Standard English, Black English, Spanglish, Texan English, Valley Girl English, Geordie, Scouse, Cockney, more...



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