speech community

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   people sharing a given language or dialect

   Broadercommunity

Questions about speech community

What does speech community mean?

speech community means "people sharing a given language or dialect".

Is speech community a common word?

speech community is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.