"clanspeak" meaning in All languages combined

See clanspeak on Wiktionary

Noun [English]

IPA: /ˈklæn.spiːk/ Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Naomi Persephone Amethyst (NaomiAmethyst)-clanspeak.wav
Etymology: From clan + -speak. Etymology templates: {{suf|en|clan|speak}} clan + -speak Head templates: {{en-noun|-}} clanspeak (uncountable)
  1. (rare, chiefly fantasy) The language or dialect of a certain clan. Tags: rare, uncountable
{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "clan",
        "3": "speak"
      },
      "expansion": "clan + -speak",
      "name": "suf"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From clan + -speak.",
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "-"
      },
      "expansion": "clanspeak (uncountable)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English terms suffixed with -speak",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Fantasy",
          "orig": "en:Fantasy",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Languages",
          "orig": "en:Languages",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "bold_text_offsets": [
            [
              16,
              25
            ]
          ],
          "ref": "2010, Edward M. Lerner, InterstellarNet: New Order:",
          "text": "Carl understood clanspeak, of course, but only someone with two independent sets of vocal chords could speak it fluently.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "bold_text_offsets": [
            [
              26,
              35
            ]
          ],
          "ref": "2018, James Wolanyk, Scribes:",
          "text": "He spoke the grymjek, the clanspeak, better than Anna's own father.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "text": "National Geographic: The hidden world of whale culture https://www.nationalgeographic.com/magazine/article/the-hidden-world-of-whale-culture-feature\nCLANSPEAK\nMembers of a sperm whale family near the Caribbean island of Dominica are part of a clan that's culturally distinct from others. Each clan communicates in its own dialect of click patterns, like Morse code."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "The language or dialect of a certain clan."
      ],
      "id": "en-clanspeak-en-noun-9J3nUcq6",
      "links": [
        [
          "fantasy",
          "fantasy"
        ],
        [
          "language",
          "language"
        ],
        [
          "dialect",
          "dialect"
        ],
        [
          "clan",
          "clan"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(rare, chiefly fantasy) The language or dialect of a certain clan."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "rare",
        "uncountable"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "fantasy"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈklæn.spiːk/"
    },
    {
      "audio": "LL-Q1860 (eng)-Naomi Persephone Amethyst (NaomiAmethyst)-clanspeak.wav",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/1/10/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Naomi_Persephone_Amethyst_%28NaomiAmethyst%29-clanspeak.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Naomi_Persephone_Amethyst_%28NaomiAmethyst%29-clanspeak.wav.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/1/10/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Naomi_Persephone_Amethyst_%28NaomiAmethyst%29-clanspeak.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Naomi_Persephone_Amethyst_%28NaomiAmethyst%29-clanspeak.wav.ogg"
    }
  ],
  "word": "clanspeak"
}
{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "clan",
        "3": "speak"
      },
      "expansion": "clan + -speak",
      "name": "suf"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From clan + -speak.",
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "-"
      },
      "expansion": "clanspeak (uncountable)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English nouns",
        "English terms suffixed with -speak",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English terms with rare senses",
        "English uncountable nouns",
        "Pages with 1 entry",
        "Pages with entries",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned",
        "en:Fantasy",
        "en:Languages"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "bold_text_offsets": [
            [
              16,
              25
            ]
          ],
          "ref": "2010, Edward M. Lerner, InterstellarNet: New Order:",
          "text": "Carl understood clanspeak, of course, but only someone with two independent sets of vocal chords could speak it fluently.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "bold_text_offsets": [
            [
              26,
              35
            ]
          ],
          "ref": "2018, James Wolanyk, Scribes:",
          "text": "He spoke the grymjek, the clanspeak, better than Anna's own father.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "text": "National Geographic: The hidden world of whale culture https://www.nationalgeographic.com/magazine/article/the-hidden-world-of-whale-culture-feature\nCLANSPEAK\nMembers of a sperm whale family near the Caribbean island of Dominica are part of a clan that's culturally distinct from others. Each clan communicates in its own dialect of click patterns, like Morse code."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "The language or dialect of a certain clan."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "fantasy",
          "fantasy"
        ],
        [
          "language",
          "language"
        ],
        [
          "dialect",
          "dialect"
        ],
        [
          "clan",
          "clan"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(rare, chiefly fantasy) The language or dialect of a certain clan."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "rare",
        "uncountable"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "fantasy"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈklæn.spiːk/"
    },
    {
      "audio": "LL-Q1860 (eng)-Naomi Persephone Amethyst (NaomiAmethyst)-clanspeak.wav",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/1/10/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Naomi_Persephone_Amethyst_%28NaomiAmethyst%29-clanspeak.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Naomi_Persephone_Amethyst_%28NaomiAmethyst%29-clanspeak.wav.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/1/10/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Naomi_Persephone_Amethyst_%28NaomiAmethyst%29-clanspeak.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Naomi_Persephone_Amethyst_%28NaomiAmethyst%29-clanspeak.wav.ogg"
    }
  ],
  "word": "clanspeak"
}

Download raw JSONL data for clanspeak meaning in All languages combined (2.4kB)


This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable All languages combined dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2025-05-08 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2025-05-01 using wiktextract (887c61b and 3d4dee6). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.