"xenolect" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "xeno- + -lect",
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          "ref": "1989, Ofelia García, Ricardo Otheguy, English across Cultures. Cultures across English",
          "text": "The \"other dialect\" may not need a special term for it, since it is the structurally unmarked, frame-of-reference variety which may be taken as defining that which is \"normal\" in the xenolect as well. But were a term to be needed for the non-xenolectal dialect(s), an appropriate one might be matrilect, making up as it does the matrix in which a xenolect is embedded.",
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          "ref": "2006, H. Julia Eksner, Ghetto Ideologies, Youth Identities and Stylized Turkish German, page 101",
          "text": "For this reason she classifies Rinkebysvenska as \"a xenolect, which relies not on radical restructuring, but on a small but symbolically significant amount of influence from immigrant language(s) to render it identifiably different from standard.\"",
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          "ref": "2009, Anna Maria D'Amore, Translating Contemporary Mexican Texts, page 110",
          "text": "As a xenolect develops, it becomes mimolect, that is, a variety whose external appearance resembles that of another (Stewart, 1989: 263-280).",
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        "A language variety that bears a superficial resemblance to another larger language, but which differs at a fundamental structural level."
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  "word": "xenolect"
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  "etymology_text": "xeno- + -lect",
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          "ref": "2006, H. Julia Eksner, Ghetto Ideologies, Youth Identities and Stylized Turkish German, page 101",
          "text": "For this reason she classifies Rinkebysvenska as \"a xenolect, which relies not on radical restructuring, but on a small but symbolically significant amount of influence from immigrant language(s) to render it identifiably different from standard.\"",
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