idiomata

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A form of idiom — A manner of speaking, a mode of expression peculiar to a language, language family, or group of people.

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Meanings

noun
  1. pluralplural of idiom
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    When you see the ‘ patois ’ of our own civilised countries surviving for centuries side by side with a literary and official language which ought to have killed them, a fortiori, you must believe in the same survival of the South African idiomata which are so entirely different from the Aryan languages.

    1905, M. Junod quoted in Journal of the African Society, Macmillan and Co.; Volume V., page #10
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Chicago

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