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-glossia

Speech or language.

Greek glōssa, tongue.

Examples include ankyloglossia, the state of being tongue-tied, diglossia, the presence of two parallel forms of a language in one society for different functions, and heteroglossia, the presence of two or more voices or expressed viewpoints in one artistic work.

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