speech community

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nounLinguistics.
  1. the aggregate of all the people who use a given language or dialect.

  2. a group of people geographically distributed so that there is no break in intelligibility from place to place.

Origin of speech community

1
First recorded in 1930–35

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British Dictionary definitions for speech community

speech community

noun
  1. a community consisting of all the speakers of a particular language or dialect

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