The readers' analogue of -phone

[Michael Everson]

On 2 Oct 2012, at 13:08, Joel S. Berson wrote:

> An X-phone is someone who speaks language X, sometimes with the connotation of "native" or preferred language.  What is the analogous term for someone who reads language X?

Well, francophone derives from Latin franco 'French' and Greek φωνη 'voice'. Would you look for an analogue for 'sight'? Then a reader of French might be a francopasist.

Michael Everson * http://www.evertype.com/

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