speech community

noun Linguistics.
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:
1930–35

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speech community
 
n
a community consisting of all the speakers of a particular language or dialect

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Speech community is always a great word to know.
So is ninnyhammer. Does it mean:
an arrangement of five objects, as trees, in a square or rectangle, one at each corner and one in the middle.
a fool or simpleton; ninny.
Example sentences
As the younger generation replaces the older one, the change is carried through the speech community.
Membership in a common speech community affects the technician's work as well.
The speech community expects linguistic judgments from linguists.
Generally, appropriateness is determined by each speech community.
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