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languagism

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Etymology

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From language +‎ -ism.

Noun

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languagism (uncountable)

  1. (rare) Linguicism; discrimination or chauvinism based on features of language such as accent, syntax, or vocabulary.
    • 1954, G. K. Puranik, Rural India - Volume 17, page 291:
      The reactionary elements in the country have had their days in poisoning the minds of most of the city people. It is in the shape of communalism, communism and languagism.
    • 1982, Z. Anthony Kruszewski, Richard L. Hough, Jacob Ornstein-Galicia, Politics and Society in the Southwest: Ethnicity and Chicano Pluralism, page 38:
      The question may be raised whether we will win the battle against racism, sexism, and agism only to lose the fight against languagism.
    • 2001, Adolph Caso, Issues In Bilingual and Foreign Language Education, →ISBN, page 41:
      America has the potential within the schools and with the educators, but it must keep the pedecrat of modern languagism out of the field of bilingualism.

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