similect

== English == === Etymology === Coined by Anna Mauranen in a paper in 2012, from similar +‎ -lect, modelled on dialect, etc. === Noun === similect (plural similects) (linguistics) 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. ==== Usage notes ==== Used by other authors after or alongside a caveat introducing the term as a coinage by Mauranen.