"grapholect" meaning in All languages combined

See grapholect on Wiktionary

Noun [English]

Forms: grapholects [plural]
Etymology: Blend of grapheme + dialect, coined by linguist Einar Haugen in 1964. Etymology templates: {{blend|en|grapheme|dialect}} Blend of grapheme + dialect Head templates: {{en-noun}} grapholect (plural grapholects)
  1. (linguistics) A written variant of a language, analogous to a spoken dialect of a language. Categories (topical): Linguistics Translations (a written variant of a language): 書寫的方言 (english: no exact term exists) (Chinese Mandarin), 书写的方言 (shūxiě de fāngyán) (Chinese Mandarin), grafolekt [masculine] (Czech), kirjakieli (Finnish), grapholecte [masculine] (French), Grapholekt [masculine] (German), grafolekt [masculine] (Polish), grafoleto [masculine] (Portuguese), графоле́кт (grafolékt) [masculine] (Russian), grafolecto [masculine] (Spanish)
    Sense id: en-grapholect-en-noun-cwEnNg62 Categories (other): English blends, English entries with incorrect language header Topics: human-sciences, linguistics, sciences

Inflected forms

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