speech community

English

Alternative forms

• speech-community

Etymology

Probably a calque of German Sprachgemeinschaft.

Noun

speech community (plural speech communities)

1. (linguistics) A group of people sharing a language, or a particular way of using that language
   • 1897, William Pierce Shepard, A contribution to the history of the unaccented vowels in Old French‎^[1], page 17:

     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.

   • 1933, Leonard Bloomfield, Language, page 44:

     Another language of this group, Cantonese, probably ranks among the world's largest speech-communities.

   • 2006, Mary Barrett, Marilyn Davidson, Gender and Communication at Work, page 271:

     Research indicates that men and women in the mainstream US culture tend to form separate speech communities.

Translations

group of people sharing a language or way of speaking

• Belarusian: моўная супольнасць f (móŭnaja supólʹnascʹ)
• Czech: jazyková komunita f, řečová komunita f
• French: communauté linguistique f
• Galician: comunidade lingüística f
• German: Sprachgemeinschaft (de) f
• Indonesian: komunitas tutur, komunitas wicara, komunitas bahasa
• Korean: 언어공동체 (eoneogongdongche)
• Macedonian: јазична заедница f (jazična zaednica), говорна заедница f (govorna zaednica)
• Polish: społeczność językowa f, społeczność komunikacyjna f, społeczność mowna f, wspólnota językowa f, wspólnota komunikacyjna f, wspólnota mowna f
• Russian: языковое сообщество n (jazykovoje soobščestvo), речевое сообщество n (rečevoje soobščestvo)
• Serbo-Croatian: jezička zajednica f, jezična zajednica f, govorna zajednica f
• Slovak: jazyková komunita f, rečová komunita f
• Slovene: jezikovna skupnost f, govorna skupnost f
• Ukrainian: мовна спільнота f (movna spilʹnota), мовне співтовариство n (movne spivtovarystvo)