English Dictionary

community language

名詞

(sociology, linguistics) An unofficial language spoken by a minority of people.

日本語の意味

少数派の人々が話す非公式な言語 / 特定のコミュニティ内で使用される、正式な公用語とは区別される言語

The community language used by older residents is at risk of disappearing as younger generations shift to mainstream speech.

年配の住民が使う地域の少数言語は、若い世代が主流の言葉に移行しているため消滅の危機にある。

意味（1）

(sociology, linguistics) An unofficial language spoken by a minority of people.

Commonly spoken community languages in Australia include Cantonese, Mandarin, Vietnamese, Arabic, Greek, Italian, indigenous languages, and so on.

意味（2）

(sociology, linguistics) An unofficial language spoken as a local lingua franca among people of diverse ethno-linguistic backgrounds.

Such languages, which serve the purposes of general communication over fairly wide areas within countries, are what are referred to as the community languages of Africa.

community languages （ plural ）