Meanings
- uncountableThe state or quality of being multilingual.
He laughed easily, so blasé about his French wife and multilingualness.
2010 January 18, Carol Plum-Ucci, Streams of Babel, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, →ISBN, page 1892 more examples
In the beginning of his book he describes the multilingualness of his home in an interesting way. The family spoke German and Russian at home, he learnt Swedish at school and Finnish at work.
1993, LEIF: Life and Education in Finland, Society for Culture and Education, page 49The persistent metaphorization or seeming cacophony conflated with African languages on the silver screen only serves to further iterate commonsensical notions of African multilingualness as valueless—as lacking in linguistic capital.
2014, Elizabeth C. Zsig, One Tlale Boyer, Ruth Kramer, Languages in Africa: Multilingualism, Language Policy, and Education, Georgetown University Press, →ISBN, page 172Synonyms: multilingualism, polylingualism
Synonyms & antonyms
nounThe state or quality of being multilingual.
Origin
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