chronolect

{{Short description|Language variants linked to temporal conditions}}

In linguistics, a chronolect or temporal dialect is a specific speech variety whose characteristics are in particular determined by time-related factors. As such, it can be contrasted with a sociolect, an ethnolect or a geolect.{{cite book|last1=Young|first1=Lynne|last2=Harrison|first2=Claire|title=Systemic Functional Linguistics and Critical Discourse Analysis: Studies in Social Change|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=gh1bng-bakQC&pg=PA36|accessdate=29 July 2013|date=22 April 2004|publisher=Continuum|isbn=978-1-84714-220-7|page=36}} In historical linguistics, a chronolect is set more or less equal to a specific language stage.{{cite book|author1=Københavns universitet. Institut for almen og anvendt sprogvidenskab|last2=Lieth|first2=Lars von der|title=Copenhagen Working Papers in Linguistics|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=uBEwTZfXYZoC&pg=PA108|accessdate=29 July 2013|date=1 December 1996|publisher=Museum Tusculanum Press|isbn=978-87-7289-385-3|page=108}} Many chronolects are extinct or endangered.{{citation needed|date=June 2016}}

The term has been used to describe newly formed political proverbs in Nigeria.Sani, Hauwa Mohammed. "Stylo-Semantic Analyses of Humorous Political Postproverbials in Hausa Speech Communities In Northern Nigeria." Postproverbials at Work: The Context of Radical Proverb-Making in Nigerian Languages. Proverbium Supplement 4 (2024): 203-208. pp. 222, 225