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speech community

Noun

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people sharing a given language or dialect

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All languages change as speakers adopt or invent new ways of speaking and pass them on to other members of their speech community. Source: Internet

But if a Pidgin language becomes the main language of a speech community, then eventually children will grow up learning the pidgin as their first language. Source: Internet

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