• Exonorm

    Origin

    - + norm

    Full definition of exonorm

    Noun

    exonorm

    (plural exonorms)
    1. (linguistics) A standard language forged by non-native speakers.
      • 1984 , George Bertram Milner, ‎David George Arms, ‎& Paul A. Geraghty , Duivosavosa: Fiji's languages, their use and their future , And for Fijian - to maintain the 0ld High Fijian exonorm, which has been the variety most frequently seen in print and uttered by officialdom, or to build on the indigenous Standard Fijian.
      • 1989 , David L. Gold , Jewish Linguistic Studies, If native or primary anglophones living in Israel travel to an English-speaking country or if they are talking or writing to anglophones unfamiliar with English as used here, they must revert to an exonorm, something which is not always easy.
      • 1997 , ‎Mary Esther Kropp Dakubu , English in Ghana , The advantage in being able to do this lies in the creation and maintenance of an endonorm rather than blindly insisting on an exonorm.

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