"language nest" meaning in English

See language nest in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

Forms: language nests [plural]
Etymology: Calque of Maori kōhanga reo. Etymology templates: {{calque|en|mi|kōhanga reo}} Calque of Maori kōhanga reo Head templates: {{en-noun}} language nest (plural language nests)
  1. (linguistics) A language revitalisation programme in which children and non-native speakers acquire the endangered language through immersion in special-purpose locations called 'nests'. Categories (topical): Linguistics Related terms: kohanga reo
    Sense id: en-language_nest-en-noun-ZO~CftaZ Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 95 5 Topics: human-sciences, linguistics, sciences
  2. (linguistics) The location itself. Categories (topical): Linguistics
    Sense id: en-language_nest-en-noun-ETevuup6 Topics: human-sciences, linguistics, sciences

Inflected forms

Download JSON data for language nest meaning in English (2.8kB)

{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "mi",
        "3": "kōhanga reo"
      },
      "expansion": "Calque of Maori kōhanga reo",
      "name": "calque"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Calque of Maori kōhanga reo.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "language nests",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "language nest (plural language nests)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Linguistics",
          "orig": "en:Linguistics",
          "parents": [
            "Language",
            "Social sciences",
            "Communication",
            "Sciences",
            "Society",
            "All topics",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "95 5",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2018, Leanne Hinton, The Routledge Handbook of Language Revitalization",
          "text": "From our viewpoint, getting a language nest established is essential. It is very difficult to remain motivated to use the target language on a regular basis if there is no circumstance that necessitates it.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2018, Kenneth L. Rehg, Lyle Campbell, The Oxford Handbook of Endangered Languages, page 447",
          "text": "There are now language nests all over the world—Besides New Zealand and Hawai'i, there are language nests (and immersion preschools for endangered languages by other labels) in mainland United States (for example, the Esther Martinez fund of the Adminstration for Native Americans funded proposals for nine ongoing or planned language nests and other pre-school immersion programs in 2015.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A language revitalisation programme in which children and non-native speakers acquire the endangered language through immersion in special-purpose locations called 'nests'."
      ],
      "id": "en-language_nest-en-noun-ZO~CftaZ",
      "links": [
        [
          "linguistics",
          "linguistics"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(linguistics) A language revitalisation programme in which children and non-native speakers acquire the endangered language through immersion in special-purpose locations called 'nests'."
      ],
      "related": [
        {
          "_dis1": "100 0",
          "word": "kohanga reo"
        }
      ],
      "topics": [
        "human-sciences",
        "linguistics",
        "sciences"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Linguistics",
          "orig": "en:Linguistics",
          "parents": [
            "Language",
            "Social sciences",
            "Communication",
            "Sciences",
            "Society",
            "All topics",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "The location itself."
      ],
      "id": "en-language_nest-en-noun-ETevuup6",
      "links": [
        [
          "linguistics",
          "linguistics"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(linguistics) The location itself."
      ],
      "topics": [
        "human-sciences",
        "linguistics",
        "sciences"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "wikipedia": [
    "language nest"
  ],
  "word": "language nest"
}
{
  "categories": [
    "English countable nouns",
    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English lemmas",
    "English multiword terms",
    "English nouns",
    "English terms calqued from Maori",
    "English terms derived from Maori"
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "mi",
        "3": "kōhanga reo"
      },
      "expansion": "Calque of Maori kōhanga reo",
      "name": "calque"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Calque of Maori kōhanga reo.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "language nests",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "language nest (plural language nests)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "related": [
    {
      "word": "kohanga reo"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with quotations",
        "en:Linguistics"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2018, Leanne Hinton, The Routledge Handbook of Language Revitalization",
          "text": "From our viewpoint, getting a language nest established is essential. It is very difficult to remain motivated to use the target language on a regular basis if there is no circumstance that necessitates it.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2018, Kenneth L. Rehg, Lyle Campbell, The Oxford Handbook of Endangered Languages, page 447",
          "text": "There are now language nests all over the world—Besides New Zealand and Hawai'i, there are language nests (and immersion preschools for endangered languages by other labels) in mainland United States (for example, the Esther Martinez fund of the Adminstration for Native Americans funded proposals for nine ongoing or planned language nests and other pre-school immersion programs in 2015.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A language revitalisation programme in which children and non-native speakers acquire the endangered language through immersion in special-purpose locations called 'nests'."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "linguistics",
          "linguistics"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(linguistics) A language revitalisation programme in which children and non-native speakers acquire the endangered language through immersion in special-purpose locations called 'nests'."
      ],
      "topics": [
        "human-sciences",
        "linguistics",
        "sciences"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "en:Linguistics"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "The location itself."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "linguistics",
          "linguistics"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(linguistics) The location itself."
      ],
      "topics": [
        "human-sciences",
        "linguistics",
        "sciences"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "wikipedia": [
    "language nest"
  ],
  "word": "language nest"
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-05-01 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-04-21 using wiktextract (f4fd8c9 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.

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.