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- Dictionaryspeech community/ˈspiːtʃ kəˌmjuːnɪti/
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- 1. a group of people sharing a common language or dialect.
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A speech community is a group of people who share a set of linguistic norms and expectations regarding the use of language. It is a concept mostly associated with sociolinguistics and anthropological linguistics. Exactly how to define speech community is debated in the literature. Definitions of speech community tend to involve varying degrees of emphasis on the following: Wikipedia