linguism en · NOUN
Etymology
Back-formation from linguist + -ism.
Meanings
- (uncountable) Discrimination based on a person's language.
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(uncountable) 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.
- (uncountable) Conversance with, or predilection for, (foreign) languages
- (uncountable) Advocacy of languages on a regional basis