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- rareuncountableLinguicism; discrimination or chauvinism based on features of language such as accent, syntax, or vocabulary.
The question may be raised whether we will win the battle against racism, sexism, and agism only to lose the fight against languagism.
1982, Z. Anthony Kruszewski, Richard L. Hough, Jacob Ornstein-Galicia, Politics and Society in the Southwest: Ethnicity and Chicano Pluralism, page 382 more examples
The reactionary elements in the country have had their days in poisoning the minds of most of the city people. It is in the shape of communalism, communism and languagism.
1954, G. K. Puranik, Rural India - Volume 17, page 291America has the potential within the schools and with the educators, but it must keep the pedecrat of modern languagism out of the field of bilingualism.
2001, Adolph Caso, Issues In Bilingual and Foreign Language Education, →ISBN, page 41
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