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"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "de",
"3": "Sprachinsel"
},
"expansion": "Calque of German Sprachinsel",
"name": "cal"
}
],
"etymology_text": "Calque of German Sprachinsel.",
"forms": [
{
"form": "language islands",
"tags": [
"plural"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {},
"expansion": "language island (plural language islands)",
"name": "en-noun"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "noun",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
"parents": [
"Entries with incorrect language header",
"Entry maintenance"
],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "topical",
"langcode": "en",
"name": "Linguistics",
"orig": "en:Linguistics",
"parents": [
"Language",
"Social sciences",
"Communication",
"Sciences",
"Society",
"All topics",
"Fundamental"
],
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}
],
"glosses": [
"An enclave where a language is physically isolated from similar languages."
],
"id": "en-language_island-en-noun-z6sNpEck",
"links": [
[
"linguistics",
"linguistics"
],
[
"enclave",
"enclave"
],
[
"language",
"language"
],
[
"isolated",
"isolated"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(linguistics) An enclave where a language is physically isolated from similar languages."
],
"related": [
{
"word": "dialect island"
}
],
"topics": [
"human-sciences",
"linguistics",
"sciences"
],
"translations": [
{
"code": "zh",
"lang": "Chinese",
"sense": "Translations",
"word": "語言島"
},
{
"code": "zh",
"lang": "Chinese",
"roman": "yǔyándǎo",
"sense": "Translations",
"word": "语言岛"
},
{
"code": "et",
"lang": "Estonian",
"sense": "Translations",
"word": "keelesaar"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "Translations",
"word": "kielisaari"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "Translations",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "enclave linguistique"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "Translations",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "îlot linguistique"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "Translations",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "glossonèse"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "Translations",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "Sprachinsel"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "Translations",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "enclave linguístico"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "Translations",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "ilha linguística"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "jazykovoj ostrov",
"sense": "Translations",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "языковой остров"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "Translations",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "enclave lingüístico"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "Translations",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "isla lingüística"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "Translations",
"tags": [
"common-gender"
],
"word": "språkö"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "Translations",
"tags": [
"common-gender"
],
"word": "språklig enklav"
}
],
"wikipedia": [
"en:language island"
]
}
],
"word": "language island"
}
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"2": "de",
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},
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"name": "cal"
}
],
"etymology_text": "Calque of German Sprachinsel.",
"forms": [
{
"form": "language islands",
"tags": [
"plural"
]
}
],
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"args": {},
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],
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"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "noun",
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{
"word": "dialect island"
}
],
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{
"categories": [
"English countable nouns",
"English entries with incorrect language header",
"English lemmas",
"English multiword terms",
"English nouns",
"English terms calqued from German",
"English terms derived from German",
"Translation table header lacks gloss",
"en:Linguistics"
],
"glosses": [
"An enclave where a language is physically isolated from similar languages."
],
"links": [
[
"linguistics",
"linguistics"
],
[
"enclave",
"enclave"
],
[
"language",
"language"
],
[
"isolated",
"isolated"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(linguistics) An enclave where a language is physically isolated from similar languages."
],
"topics": [
"human-sciences",
"linguistics",
"sciences"
],
"wikipedia": [
"en:language island"
]
}
],
"translations": [
{
"code": "zh",
"lang": "Chinese",
"sense": "Translations",
"word": "語言島"
},
{
"code": "zh",
"lang": "Chinese",
"roman": "yǔyándǎo",
"sense": "Translations",
"word": "语言岛"
},
{
"code": "et",
"lang": "Estonian",
"sense": "Translations",
"word": "keelesaar"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "Translations",
"word": "kielisaari"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "Translations",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "enclave linguistique"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "Translations",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "îlot linguistique"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "Translations",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "glossonèse"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "Translations",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "Sprachinsel"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "Translations",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "enclave linguístico"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "Translations",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "ilha linguística"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "jazykovoj ostrov",
"sense": "Translations",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "языковой остров"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "Translations",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "enclave lingüístico"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "Translations",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "isla lingüística"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "Translations",
"tags": [
"common-gender"
],
"word": "språkö"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "Translations",
"tags": [
"common-gender"
],
"word": "språklig enklav"
}
],
"word": "language island"
}
This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-04-30 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-04-21 using wiktextract (210104c and c9440ce). 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.
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