linguistic imbalance

noun3

1. •
   The levels of official use or representation of languages that are perceived not to reflect their use in the population.

   • Before the emergence of democracy in South Africa, the apartheid regime had brought linguistic imbalance. — 2002
2. •
   The use of terminology in a language that treats different social categories (such as gender) unequally.

   • This linguistic imbalance denies the woman certain privileges, a bias phenomenon that is recurrent in language. — 2012
3. •
   The differential in skills of a polyglot among the languages they know.