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Meanings of language group in English

Russian
речевое сообщество
Spanish
comunidad de hablantes

Group of people who share expectations regarding linguistic usage.

речевое сообщество
Russian
группа языков
Portuguese
grupo linguístico
Spanish
grupo lingüístico
Catalan
grup de llengües

Set of languages distinguished by their common features, geographic location or genetic relationship.

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группа языков
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Examples for "speech community"
Examples for "speech community"
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They also minimised the role and place of black Afrikaans speakers in the broader speech community.
The South African
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For simplicity's sake, we will refer to communities that support racist or otherwise discriminatory viewpoints as hate speech communities.
Wired
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They can meet their community, the language community, through this app.
Radio NZ
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It is not a tribe, or an ethnicity, or even a language community.
The Irish Times
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So pedants need to be more conscious of their place in the language community.
The Guardian
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The voices of those representing the Irish language community would undoubtedly be heard condemning such an injustice.
The Irish Times
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He said the Irish- language community needed to be serviced by the state "on an equal basis with English-speakers".
The Irish Times
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It even has a separate parliament for its tiny German- speaking community.
BBC
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Further, our results suggest that smoking and weight reduction programs are priorities in the Arabic- speaking community.
Pubmed
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Extensive efforts have been made to communicate Covid-19 updates to the large non-English speaking community in Nelson.
Radio NZ
4
Northern Ireland's Irish speaking community was given a boost today as TG4 began broadcasting to thousands of homes.
The Irish Times
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Current policy may superficially boast a sense of cultural renewal, but the language's native- speaking community is in crisis.
The Irish Times
Usage of language group in English
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Helen didn't know the tongue, but she thought she recognized the language group.
Changer of Worlds
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It belongs to a language group of one, off the west coast of Canada.
The Guardian
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Another fragmented language group is the Austroasiatic family, whose most widely spoken languages are Vietnamese and Cambodian.
Guns, germs, and steel: the fates of human societies
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Those of the Ngunnawal language group were, the whitefellas then decided, the custodians of the Limestone Plains.
The Guardian
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It might be described as the spinster aunt of the Athabascan language group, which includes Navajo and Apache.
The new yorker
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He says multiple clans within the local Yugambeh language group were closely involved in the conceptual and creative process.
The Guardian
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Northern Ireland's culture minister has criticised a decision by Sinn Fein to name a new Irish language group after a murdered IRA man.
The Irish Times
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Instead, I have often followed the common practice of referring to these tribes by the name of their shared language group, which was Algonquin.
New york: the novel
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TÁ Comhionannas the Irish language group seeking a Yes vote in the upcoming referendum on same sex marriage officially launched its campaign in Dub(...)
The Irish Times
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This was bigger than language groups, she said, bigger than families.
The Guardian
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Members of other language groups feel the same way.
Wired
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Dagestan is home to more than 40 language groups.
Reuters
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The songlines or tracks transcend the language groups.
The Guardian
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These bishops faced a problem in uniting two different language groups of Christians under a single authority.
Christianity: the first three thousand years
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Swiss public institutions always seek to balance representatives from the different language groups in this multilingual country.
Reuters
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Swiss public institutions always seek to balance representatives from the different language groups in the multilingual country.
Reuters