multilingualism

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Etymology

From multilingual +‎ -ism.

Pronunciation

• (General American, Canada) IPA^(key): /mʌltiˈlɪŋɡwəlɪzəm/

• Audio (US):

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Noun

multilingualism (usually uncountable, plural multilingualisms)

1. The condition of being multilingual; the ability to speak multiple languages.
   • 2020 October 27, Emily Bouza, Tim Cavnar, and Keli Tucker, “Translingualism: An Alternative to Restrictive Monolingual Ideologies in Writing Instruction”, in Another Word‎:

     This is, perhaps, where writing centers and composition studies are implicated most obviously into the conversation of language ideology, translingualism, and multilingualism.

   • 2021 December 18, Ching Ching Tan, “Spielberg’s West Side Story shows us the value of multilingualism”, in CNN‎:

     Spielberg showed us, a nation historically obsessed with the idea of domination, that respect is a courageous choice and that multilingualism is our true color. It is who we are.

Synonyms

• multilinguality

Antonyms

• monolingualism, unilingualism

Derived terms

• multilingualistic

Related terms

• bilingualism
• monolingualism
• trilingualism

Translations

ability to speak several languages

Arabic: متعدد اللغات Armenian: բազմալեզվություն (hy) (bazmalezvutʻyun) Azerbaijani: çoxdillilik Basque: eleaniztasuna Breton: liesyezhegezh (br) Catalan: plurilingüisme (ca) m, multilingüisme (ca) Czech: vícejazyčnost Dutch: meertaligheid (nl) f Esperanto: plurlingvismo Finnish: monikielisyys (fi) French: multilinguisme (fr) m, plurilinguisme (fr) m Galician: plurilingüismo m, multilingüismo m German: Mehrsprachigkeit (de) f, Vielsprachigkeit (de) f, Multilingualismus (de) m, Multilinguismus m, Multilingualität f Hebrew: רב־לשוניות f (rav-leshoniyút) Hindi: बहुभाषिकता f (bahubhāṣiktā), बहुभाषिता f (bahubhāṣitā) Hungarian: többnyelvűség (hu) Italian: plurilinguismo m, multilinguismo m Kazakh: көптілділік (köptıldılık) Latin: multilingualismus m Lithuanian: daugiakalbystė Macedonian: повеќеја́зичност f (poveḱejázičnost) Norman: multilîndgisme m Norwegian: Bokmål: flerspråklighet (no) m or f Nynorsk: fleirspråklegheit f Occitan: multilingüisme Polish: wielojęzyczność (pl) Portuguese: plurilinguismo m, multilinguismo m Romanian: multilingvism (ro) Russian: многоязы́чие (ru) n (mnogojazýčije), многоязы́чность (ru) f (mnogojazýčnostʹ), мультилингви́зм (ru) m (mulʹtilingvízm) Spanish: plurilingüismo (es), multilingüismo m Swedish: flerspråkighet (sv) c Turkish: çokdillilik (tr) Ukrainian: багатомо́вність (uk) f (bahatomóvnistʹ)