# similect

> English word · Noun

## Definitions
1. A variety of a language spoken by people who have a different first language, with features transferred from the first language in parallel by individual speakers rather than by a cohesive group.

## Etymology
Coined by Anna Mauranen in a paper in 2012, from similar + -lect, modelled on dialect, etc.

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
Canonical page: https://plainspell.com/en/word/similect