informant

Noun

 * 1) One who relays confidential information to someone, especially to the police; an informer.
 * 2)  A native speaker who acts as a linguistic reference for a language being studied. The informant demonstrates native pronunciation, provides grammaticality judgments regarding linguistic well-formedness, and may also explain cultural references and other important contextual information.
 * 1)  A native speaker who acts as a linguistic reference for a language being studied. The informant demonstrates native pronunciation, provides grammaticality judgments regarding linguistic well-formedness, and may also explain cultural references and other important contextual information.

Derived terms

 * confidential informant

Translations

 * Albanian:
 * Arabic: مُخْبِر, مُخْبِرة
 * Armenian:
 * Belarusian: інфарма́тар, інфарма́тарка
 * Bulgarian:, доно́сница, доно́сничка, , информа́торка
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 提供消息的人,, , 舉報人, 檢舉人
 * Czech: informátor, informátorka
 * Danish: informant
 * Esperanto: informanto
 * Estonian:
 * Finnish: informantti,
 * French: ,
 * Georgian:
 * German: ,
 * Greek:
 * Ancient: συκοφάντης
 * Hebrew:
 * Hungarian:
 * Italian:, ,
 * Japanese: 情報提供者, インフォーマント
 * Kurdish:
 * Central Kurdish: ئاگادار
 * Latin: dēlātor
 * Latvian:
 * Lithuanian:
 * Macedonian: кодош, доушник
 * Maori: kaiwhāki, kaiwhakaatu
 * Old English: melda
 * Polish: ,
 * Portuguese: ,
 * Romanian: ,
 * Russian:, ,
 * Slovak: informátor, informátorka
 * Spanish:
 * Tagalog: tagahimaton, impormante
 * Turkish:
 * Ukrainian: інформа́тор, інформа́торка


 * Finnish: informantti
 * Hungarian: ,

Etymology
Borrowed, more probably from French or German than from English due to the word's ultimate stress.