languoid

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languoid

/ˈlæŋɡwɔɪd/

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Blend of language + -oid, coined by linguist Jeff Good and Calvin Hendryx-Parker in 2006.

noun languoids

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 ...
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"languoid." Wiktionary, via Micwyn, micwyn.com/word/languoid. Accessed 6 Nov. 2026.

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"languoid." Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Accessed November 6, 2026. https://micwyn.com/word/languoid.

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@misc{languoid_2026,
  title = {languoid},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/languoid},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}