community language

plural noun

1. a language spoken by members of a minority group or community within a majority language context

Example Sentences

She described feeling heartbroken by what she witnessed on April 28, “by the language and the vitriol that came from our own Jewish community … language that I have to say matched some of the worst language that we’ve heard against Jews in the last several months.”

From Los Angeles Times

The Modern Cockney Festival concluded recently with the dialect being officially recognised as a community language by an east London council.

From BBC

But even though Mr Osmani and Mr Green have now achieved official recognition for the dialect as a community language, courtesy of Tower Hamlets Council, are cockney speakers indeed a dying breed, as Prof Kerswill predicted in 2011?

From BBC

The measure is part of a plan to protect Welsh as a community language, the Welsh government said.

From BBC

“The problem is that for languages to survive, they need to be considered as equal in their function and their communicative value for their own community. Language planners have realized that if kids nowadays speak more Irish, Breton, or Basque at school, it doesn’t mean that they use it in the playground. The reality is that a language needs to be perceived positively everywhere. This type of modern online interaction attracts the younger generation who needs to see and hear their minority language being used in modern online platforms.”

From The Verge