linguism
nounEtymology Back-formation from linguist + -ism.
1
Discrimination based on a person's language.
2
Competition among or unequal treatment of languages and their speaker communities.
- 1971 David D. Anderson, "Ahmed Ali and Twilight in Delhi: The genesis of a Pakistani novel," MAHFIL: A.Quarterly of South Asian Literature, Spring-Summer 1971. This time, however, the controversy […] dealt with linguism, the problem of, the multiplicity of competing languages in the subcontinent as well as the cultural and political, overtones of the continuing competition among them.
3
Conversance with, or predilection for, (foreign) languages
4
Advocacy of languages on a regional basis
- Related terms
- linguicism, linguisticism