idiolect

From idio- +‎ -lect.^[1]

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈɪd.i.əʊ̯.lɛkt/, /ˈɪd.i.ə.lɛkt/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈɪd.i.ə.lɛkt/
• (New Zealand) IPA^(key): /ˈɘ.di.ɐʉ.lekt/

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idiolect (plural idiolects)

1. (linguistics) The language variant used by a specific individual.

   Coordinate terms: dialect, familect, regiolect, ethnolect, ecolect, sociolect

   • 2012, John Mullan, What Matters in Jane Austen?: Twenty Crucial Puzzles Solved, page 3:

     She perfected the fictional idiolect, fashioning habits of speaking for even minor characters that rendered them utterly singular.

Internationalism; see English idiolect, from which it may be borrowed.

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idiolect n (plural idiolecten, diminutive idiolectje n)

1. (linguistics) idiolect

• idiolect on the Dutch Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^nl

Borrowed from English idiolect.

idiolect n (plural idiolecte)

1. idiolect