Meanings
- not comparablehuman sciencesSpeaking a non-native language.
Except for this special measure in favour of the children of the Polish minors living in the north and the east of France, the treatment of foreign alloglot children in the French school system was not specifically different from that applied to national children.
2007, Geneviève Zarate, Handbook of Multilingualism and Multiculturalism
plural alloglots
- human sciencesOne who speaks a non-native language.
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The question is where the alloglots live, whether persons with the same linguistic background remain closely together in the same villages or suburbs of the cities and form alloglot islands where the respective language would have a majority or at least constitute a strong minority, or whether the clustering of languages follows different patterns (for example economic ones).
2008, Monica Barni, Mapping Linguistic Diversity in Multicultural Contexts, page 197
Origin
- Frenchalloglote
- Englishalloglot
Borrowed from French alloglote, equivalent to allo- + -glot.
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