linguism
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Back-formation from linguist + -ism.
Noun
[edit]linguism (uncountable)
- Discrimination based on a person's language.
- Competition among or unequal treatment of languages and their speaker communities.
- 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.
- 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.
- Conversance with, or predilection for, (foreign) languages[1]
- Advocacy of languages on a regional basis[1]
Related terms
[edit]References
[edit]- ↑ 1.0 1.1 OED Online, as cited by H. Dominic W Stiles, "‘Linguism’ or ‘Linguicism’," UCL Ear Institute & Action on Hearing Loss Libraries (blog), 12 December 2012