patrilect

English

Etymology

patri- +‎ -lect

Noun

patrilect (plural patrilects)

  1. (linguistics) The language or dialect spoken by the patriclan.
    • 1991, Philip Baldi, Patterns of Change - Change of Patterns, →ISBN:
      Patrilect is a marker of patriclan membership and thus a symbol of identity.
    • 2013, Janet Chernela, “Toward an East Tukano ethnolinguistics: Metadiscursive practices, identity, and sustained linguistic diversity in the Vaupe/s basin of Brazil and Colombia”, in Upper Rio Negro: Cultural and Linguistic Interaction in Northwestern Amazonia, →ISBN, page 216:
      Second, speakers are always familiar with at least two languages (patrilect and matrilect) and typically more.
    • 2013, Christine Mallinson, Becky Childs, Gerard Van Herk, Data Collection in Sociolinguistics, →ISBN:
      Sui children rapidly learn to distinguish these clan-related dialects; young children may speak a mix of matrilect and patrilect, but older children and teenagers are almost fully patrilectal (Stanford, 2008b).
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