"linguistic diversity index" meaning in English

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Noun

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  1. (linguistics) Quantifies the probability that two randomly selected individuals from a population will have different mother tongues. Wikipedia link: linguistic diversity index Tags: uncountable Categories (topical): Linguistics
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