The Collaborative International Dictionary
Rememberer \Re*mem"ber*er\ (-?r), n. One who remembers.
Wiktionary
n. 1 One who remembers, recalls from memory. 2 (lb en sociolinguistics) One who remembers several words and phrases from a moribund language, but never became fluent in it.
Wikipedia
In linguistics, a rememberer is a person who knows individual words or phrases (sometimes entire texts) of a dying or dead language but cannot use the language productively. It is contrasted with fluent or full speakers, who have a good command of the language, and semi-speakers, who have a partial command of it.
The distinction between fluent speakers and rememberers is important in fieldwork, but accurately determining where a member of a language community falls on the speaker-rememberer continuum can be challenging.
Usage examples of "rememberer".
Just inside the doorway, a group of rememberer children, their faces showing prominent lobes, stood rapt before the writing-covered walls.
Go with the boy as adviser, protector, and mentor--and also watch this human rememberer to keep him out of trouble.
Besides, the rebuilding and restoration of Hyrillka was something a rememberer should witness.
She came from the rememberer kith, attractive and intelligent in her own way, her face a sculpture of fleshy lobes that could display a palette of emotions.
The rememberer was clearly torn, not wanting to know more, but given orders by the Mage-Imperator to discover what he could.
Reynald nodded a welcome, not sure how to receive a rememberer, whether with an outthrust hand or with applause.
Down here, the rememberer had access to all the ancient records of Ildiran history.
Already, the younger rememberer had discovered a notation in one of the Earth encyclopedias obtained from human merchantsa reference to a disease called cholera that spread easily from human to human when they lived in close quarters.
That fever had proved particularly deadly for the rememberer kith, with the result that every historian in the Ildiran capital had been wiped out.
Feeling nervous, yet thrilled, the young rememberer probed into the tiny vault that had been locked away and forgotten ages ago.
The rememberer knew he must reveal his appalling discovery to the Mage-Imperator.
Mage-Imperator is pleased to grant access to one of his valued rememberer subjects and is eager to hear your matter of great importance.
I was searching for background material about the Lost Times, when accepted history tells us that all members of the rememberer kith perished in the firefever.
Many times he had been tempted to employ a rememberer for the fleet, a dedicated historian to regale the soldiers with heroic tales between their duties.
For a rememberer, the most tragic death is to die young, because one can never read the complete epic, and therefore dies unfulfilled.