linguism

noun 4

Definitions

noun

1

Discrimination based on a person's language.

2

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

1971 David D. Anderson, "Ahmed Ali and Twilight in Delhi: The genesis of a Pakistani novel," MAHFIL: A.Quarterly of South Asian Literature, Spring-Summer 1971. This time, however, the controversy […] dealt with linguism, the problem of, the multiplicity of competing languages in the subcontinent as well as the cultural and political, overtones of the continuing competition among them.

3

Conversance with, or predilection for, (foreign) languages

4

Advocacy of languages on a regional basis

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