languagism

From language +‎ -ism.

languagism (uncountable)

1. (rare) Linguicism; discrimination or chauvinism based on features of language such as accent, syntax, or vocabulary.
   • 1954, G. K. Puranik, Rural India - Volume 17, page 291:

     The reactionary elements in the country have had their days in poisoning the minds of most of the city people. It is in the shape of communalism, communism and languagism.

   • 1982, Z. Anthony Kruszewski, Richard L. Hough, Jacob Ornstein-Galicia, Politics and Society in the Southwest: Ethnicity and Chicano Pluralism, page 38:

     The question may be raised whether we will win the battle against racism, sexism, and agism only to lose the fight against languagism.

   • 2001, Adolph Caso, Issues In Bilingual and Foreign Language Education, →ISBN, page 41:

     America has the potential within the schools and with the educators, but it must keep the pedecrat of modern languagism out of the field of bilingualism.

• Linguistic discrimination