"communalect" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1957 January, Harold Hickerson, Glen D. Turner, Nancy P. Hickerson, “Testing Procedures for Estimating Transfer of Information among Iroquois Dialects and Languages”, in C[harles] F[rederick] Voegelin, editor, International Journal of American Linguistics, volume XVIII, number 1, Chicago, Ill.: […] Indiana University under the auspices of Linguistic Society of America, American Anthropological Association with the cooperation of Joint Committee on American Native Languages, →DOI, →ISSN, →OCLC, paragraph 0.2, page 1, column 2",
          "text": "The purpose of a six-week field trip in Ontario, Canada, and New York State was to employ the \"test the informant\" method, utilizing magnetic recording machinery, in determining the intelligibility relationships among seven Iroquois communalects: Seneca, Cayuga, Onondaga, Oneida, Mohawk, Tuscarora, and Cherokee; […]",
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          "text": "No one knows exactly how many Fijian communalects there are, but it is certain that the total number runs into the hundreds. Fijians have names for many of them, particularly where the communalect coincides with the speech of a single village, island or tikina, […]",
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          "text": "Geographically contiguous communalects are often arranged into dialect chains, so that adjacent communalects share much in common, but communalects at either end of the chain may be quite different.",
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        "(linguistics) Especially in Pacific linguistics: the lect (linguistic variety) spoken by a particular speech community."
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          "word": "communilect"
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          "code": "fi",
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          "word": "yhteisön kieli"
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          "roman": "jázik na zaédnica",
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