Languagism

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.”

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Languagist

Noun:
1. A person who believes that some languages are clearly superior to others
Adjective:

1. Having or showing the belief that one language(s) is clearly superior to others

“On the blog they shared many languagist comments which offended many Japanese people. There was outcry to shut the blog down, but free speech ,in English at least, was triumphant.”

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