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Languagism 

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Noun:
1. the belief that not all languages are created equal and do not share equal beauty or function. Also the belief that the spoken language will always sound equally bad or good despite the speaker for any set language.
“Their languagism made them avoid the foreign movie while it was in theaters, their friends raved about it later, but they refused to watch something in German even if it was the movie of the century.”
Languagism by EriTanaka June 28, 2016
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languagism 

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A form of discrimination, it is the negative reaction to the fear of what someone is saying in a language that is not understood, thus leading to anger against the speaker of another language, even if that language is native to the speaker.
In a recent incident related on the nativenewsnetwork website, a Menominee seventh grader was suspended from school for teaching a classmate how to say "I love you" in her native tongue. Her teacher, hearing but not understanding the child's native tongue, reacted by having her suspended from school. In discussing the incident, we decided the teacher was guilty of languagism.
languagism by LazyK.i.am March 14, 2012

langurism 

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The Ultimate religion based of langurs

also langoorism
person1: hey do you support langurism
person2: of course, hail langurism
langurism by SurprisedMrSeal November 7, 2020

Languagist

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This is when you discriminate another person's language.
OMG! That guy is so languagist!
Languagist by red_velvet_kitty July 13, 2017

Romance Languages 

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Languages that formed from ancient Latin dialects spoken mainly in Rome. Languages include Spanish, French, Portugese, Catalan, Langue d'oc, Italian, Sardinian, and Romanian. These languages tend to share many similar structural and pronunciational guidelines and similarly spelled words.
Romance languages are often easy to learn.

languasm 

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The feeling when you learn an attractive or useful new word in your native or non-native language. Or, when you hear or read someone using their native or non-native language attractively.
"When he speaks Spanish it gives me a languasm"
"My students' excellent grasp of the new grammar gave me a languasm"
languasm by lauralollylegs May 10, 2016

Uralic languages 

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A language family that includes Finnish, Estonian, Hungarian as well as a lot of minority languages in Russia. Named after Ural mountains, their assumed place of origin.
Uralic languages have a shit-ton of cases.
Uralic languages by taajamajuna888 December 31, 2016
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