extralinguistic

Adjective

Meaning

not included within the realm of language

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Frishberg (1975) Klima & Bellugi (1979) Though they recognized that certain aspects of the language seemed iconic, they considered this to be merely extralinguistic, a property which did not influence the language. Source: Internet

To call Chinese a family of languages is to suggest extralinguistic differences that in fact do not exist and to overlook the unique linguistic situation that exists in China." Source: Internet

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