Speech-community
noun, Linguistics.
1.
the aggregate of all the people who use a given language or dialect.
2.
a group of people geographically distributed so that there is no break in intelligibility from place to place.
speech community
noun
1.
a community consisting of all the speakers of a particular language or dialect
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