languoid
noun
- language, variety of a language, or group of languages
Wiktionary
Pronunciation: /ˈlæŋɡwɔɪd/
noun
Etymology: Blend of language + -oid, coined by linguist Jeff Good and Calvin Hendryx-Parker in 2006.
- Synonym of lect: a language, variety of a language, or group of languages.
“And more recently, the terms languoid and doculect have been proposed (Cysouw and Good 2013) where languoid is any 'language-like object' and doculect is 'a linguistic variety as it is documented in a given resource' (p. 342). This term is ...”