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linguism.

Discrimination based on a person's language.

8 characters2 syllables approx.English language

Meaning & usage

noun
  1. Discrimination based on a person's language.

    uncountable
  2. Competition among or unequal treatment of languages and their speaker communities.

    uncountable
  3. Conversance with, or predilection for, (foreign) languages

    uncountable
  4. Advocacy of languages on a regional basis

    uncountable
Where this word comes from

Back-formation from linguist + -ism.

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