Multiethnolect is a term used to a describe language variant which contains influences from various different languages, typically formed in youth communities in working class, immigrant neighborhoods of urban areas. Unlike an ethnolect, which associates one language variant with one particular ethnic group, speakers of a multiethnolect often come from varied ethnic backgrounds, and their language usage can be more closely attributed to the neighborhood in which they live than their nationality or that of their parents. The term multiethnolect was first coined by Clyne (2000) and Quist (2000). Research of multiethnolects has thus far focused primarily on urban areas in northwestern Europe, such as Scandinavia, the Netherlands, Belgium, Germany, and Great Britain, but the phenomenon is far