"isolect" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1967, Alfred B. Hudson, The Barito Isolects of Borneo: a Classification Based on Comparative Reconstruction and Lexicostatistics, page 53:",
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          "text": "At the same time, the ordering of isolects that is finally chosen must give the right results for (virtually) all the environments.",
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          "word": "isolek"
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          "word": "isolecto"
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          "lang": "Turkish",
          "sense": "a language or dialect",
          "word": "eşlehçe"
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