# informant

> native speaker or member of a community who acts as a linguistic reference for a language or speech community being studied

**Wikidata**: [Q16872924](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q16872924)  
**Wikipedia**: [English](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Informant_(linguistics))  
**Source**: https://4ort.xyz/entity/informant-q16872924