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Multilingualism

Index Multilingualism

Multilingualism is the use of more than one language, either by an individual speaker or by a group of speakers. [1]

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  1. 228 relations: A. J. Aitken, Abstand and ausbau languages, Afrikaans, Al-Sayyid Bedouin Sign Language, Americanah, Ana Castillo, Arabic, Aramaic, Arawakan languages, Balkans, Bashkirs, Benelux, Bilingual sign, Blackmail, Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza, Bosnian language, Brain asymmetry, Breakup of Yugoslavia, Calque, Catalan language, Chicano, Chicano literature, Child prodigy, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Chinese language, Chinese people, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Code-switching, Cognition, Cognitive flexibility, Communication accommodation theory, Connotation, Cormac McCarthy, Creole language, Critical period hypothesis, Croatian language, Cultural diversity, Culture of Latin America, Curaçao, Czech language, Czechoslovak language, Czechoslovakia, Danish language, Dementia, Diglossia, Digraphia, Diversity (business), Dravidian languages, Dreaming of Words, Dutch language, ... Expand index (178 more) »

  2. Neurolinguistics
  3. Sociology of language

A. J. Aitken

Adam Jack Aitken (19 June 1921 – 11 February 1998) was a Scottish lexicographer and leading scholar of the Scots language.

See Multilingualism and A. J. Aitken

Abstand and ausbau languages

In sociolinguistics, an abstand language is a language variety or cluster of varieties with significant linguistic distance from all others, while an ausbau language is a standard variety, possibly with related dependent varieties.

See Multilingualism and Abstand and ausbau languages

Afrikaans

Afrikaans is a West Germanic language, spoken in South Africa, Namibia and (to a lesser extent) Botswana, Zambia and Zimbabwe.

See Multilingualism and Afrikaans

Al-Sayyid Bedouin Sign Language

Al-Sayyid Bedouin Sign Language (ABSL) is a village sign language used by about 150 deaf and many hearing members of the al-Sayyid Bedouin tribe in the Negev desert of southern Israel.

See Multilingualism and Al-Sayyid Bedouin Sign Language

Americanah

Americanah is a 2013 novel by the Nigerian author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, for which Adichie won the 2013 U.S. National Book Critics Circle Award for fiction.

See Multilingualism and Americanah

Ana Castillo

Ana Castillo (born June 15, 1953) is a Chicana novelist, poet, short story writer, essayist, editor, playwright, translator and independent scholar.

See Multilingualism and Ana Castillo

Arabic

Arabic (اَلْعَرَبِيَّةُ, or عَرَبِيّ, or) is a Central Semitic language of the Afroasiatic language family spoken primarily in the Arab world.

See Multilingualism and Arabic

Aramaic

Aramaic (ˀərāmiṯ; arāmāˀiṯ) is a Northwest Semitic language that originated in the ancient region of Syria and quickly spread to Mesopotamia, the southern Levant, southeastern Anatolia, Eastern Arabia and the Sinai Peninsula, where it has been continually written and spoken in different varieties for over three thousand years.

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Arawakan languages

Arawakan (Arahuacan, Maipuran Arawakan, "mainstream" Arawakan, Arawakan proper), also known as Maipurean (also Maipuran, Maipureano, Maipúre), is a language family that developed among ancient indigenous peoples in South America.

See Multilingualism and Arawakan languages

Balkans

The Balkans, corresponding partially with the Balkan Peninsula, is a geographical area in southeastern Europe with various geographical and historical definitions.

See Multilingualism and Balkans

Bashkirs

The Bashkirs or Bashkurts (Başqorttar,; Башкиры) are a Kipchak-Bulgar Turkic ethnic group indigenous to Russia.

See Multilingualism and Bashkirs

Benelux

The Benelux Union (Benelux Unie; Union Benelux; Benelux-Unioun) or Benelux is a politico-economic union and formal international intergovernmental cooperation of three neighbouring states in Western Europe: Belgium, the Netherlands, and Luxembourg.

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Bilingual sign

A bilingual sign (or, by extension, a multilingual sign) is the representation on a panel (sign, usually a traffic sign, a safety sign, an informational sign) of texts in more than one language.

See Multilingualism and Bilingual sign

Blackmail

Blackmail is a criminal act of coercion using a threat.

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Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza

Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza is a 1987 semi-autobiographical work by Gloria E. Anzaldúa that examines the Chicano and Latino experience through the lens of issues such as gender, identity, race, and colonialism.

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Bosnian language

Bosnian (bosanski / босански), sometimes referred to as Bosniak language, is the standardized variety of the Serbo-Croatian pluricentric language mainly used by ethnic Bosniaks.

See Multilingualism and Bosnian language

Brain asymmetry

In human neuroanatomy, brain asymmetry can refer to at least two quite distinct findings.

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Breakup of Yugoslavia

After a period of political and economic crisis in the 1980s, the constituent republics of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia split apart, but the unresolved issues caused a series of inter-ethnic Yugoslav Wars.

See Multilingualism and Breakup of Yugoslavia

Calque

In linguistics, a calque or loan translation is a word or phrase borrowed from another language by literal word-for-word or root-for-root translation.

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Catalan language

Catalan (or; autonym: català), known in the Valencian Community and Carche as Valencian (autonym: valencià), is a Western Romance language.

See Multilingualism and Catalan language

Chicano

Chicano (masculine form) or Chicana (feminine form) is an ethnic identity for Mexican Americans who have a non-Anglo self-image, embracing their Mexican Native ancestry.

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Chicano literature

Chicano literature is an aspect of Mexican-American literature that emerged from the cultural consciousness developed in the Chicano Movement.

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Child prodigy

A child prodigy is a person under the age of ten who produces meaningful work in some domain at the level of an adult expert.

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Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (born 15 September 1977) is a Nigerian author who is regarded as a central figure in postcolonial feminist literature.

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Chinese language

Chinese is a group of languages spoken natively by the ethnic Han Chinese majority and many minority ethnic groups in China.

See Multilingualism and Chinese language

Chinese people

The Chinese people, or simply Chinese, are people or ethnic groups identified with China, usually through ethnicity, nationality, citizenship, or other affiliation.

See Multilingualism and Chinese people

Chinese University of Hong Kong

The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) is a public research university in Sha Tin, New Territories, Hong Kong.

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Code-switching

In linguistics, code-switching or language alternation occurs when a speaker alternates between two or more languages, or language varieties, in the context of a single conversation or situation. Multilingualism and code-switching are language acquisition.

See Multilingualism and Code-switching

Cognition

Cognition is the "mental action or process of acquiring knowledge and understanding through thought, experience, and the senses".

See Multilingualism and Cognition

Cognitive flexibility

Cognitive flexibility is an intrinsic property of a cognitive system often associated with the mental ability to adjust its activity and content, switch between different task rules and corresponding behavioral responses, maintain multiple concepts simultaneously and shift internal attention between them.

See Multilingualism and Cognitive flexibility

Communication accommodation theory

Communication accommodation theory (CAT) is a theory of communication, developed by Howard Giles, concerning "(1) the behavioral changes that people make to attune their communication to their partner, (2) the extent to which people perceive their partner as appropriately attuning to them".

See Multilingualism and Communication accommodation theory

Connotation

A connotation is a commonly understood cultural or emotional association that any given word or phrase carries, in addition to its explicit or literal meaning, which is its denotation.

See Multilingualism and Connotation

Cormac McCarthy

Cormac McCarthy (born Charles Joseph McCarthy Jr.; July 20, 1933 – June 13, 2023) was an American writer who authored twelve novels, two plays, five screenplays, and three short stories, spanning the Western and postapocalyptic genres.

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Creole language

A creole language, or simply creole, is a stable natural language that develops from the process of different languages simplifying and mixing into a new form (often a pidgin), and then that form expanding and elaborating into a full-fledged language with native speakers, all within a fairly brief period.

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Critical period hypothesis

The critical period hypothesis is a theory within the field of linguistics and second language acquisition that claims a person can only achieve native-like fluency in a language before a certain age. Multilingualism and critical period hypothesis are language acquisition.

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Croatian language

Croatian (hrvatski) is the standardised variety of the Serbo-Croatian pluricentric language mainly used by Croats.

See Multilingualism and Croatian language

Cultural diversity

Cultural diversity is the quality of diverse or different cultures, as opposed to monoculture.

See Multilingualism and Cultural diversity

Culture of Latin America

The Culture of Latin America is the formal or informal expression of the people of Latin America and includes both high culture (literature and high art) and popular culture (music, folk art, and dance), as well as religion and other customary practices.

See Multilingualism and Culture of Latin America

Curaçao

Curaçao (or, or, Papiamentu), officially the Country of Curaçao (Land Curaçao; Papiamentu: Pais Kòrsou), is a Lesser Antilles island in the southern Caribbean Sea, specifically the Dutch Caribbean region, about north of Venezuela.

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Czech language

Czech (čeština), historically also known as Bohemian (lingua Bohemica), is a West Slavic language of the Czech–Slovak group, written in Latin script.

See Multilingualism and Czech language

Czechoslovak language

The Czechoslovak language (jazyk československý, Československý jazyk) was a political sociolinguistic concept used in Czechoslovakia in 1920–1938 for the definition of the state language of the country which proclaimed its independence as the republic of two nations, i.e. ethnic groups, Czechs and Slovaks.

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Czechoslovakia

Czechoslovakia (Czech and Československo, Česko-Slovensko) was a landlocked state in Central Europe, created in 1918, when it declared its independence from Austria-Hungary.

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Danish language

Danish (dansk, dansk sprog) is a North Germanic language from the Indo-European language family spoken by about six million people, principally in and around Denmark.

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Dementia

Dementia is a syndrome associated with many neurodegenerative diseases, characterized by a general decline in cognitive abilities that affects a person's ability to perform everyday activities.

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Diglossia

In linguistics, diglossia is a situation in which two dialects or languages are used (in fairly strict compartmentalization) by a single language community.

See Multilingualism and Diglossia

Digraphia

In sociolinguistics, digraphia refers to the use of more than one writing system for the same language.

See Multilingualism and Digraphia

Diversity (business)

Diversity, in a business context, is hiring and promoting employees from a variety of different backgrounds and identities.

See Multilingualism and Diversity (business)

Dravidian languages

The Dravidian languages (sometimes called Dravidic) are a family of languages spoken by 250 million people, mainly in southern India, north-east Sri Lanka, and south-west Pakistan, with pockets elsewhere in South Asia.

See Multilingualism and Dravidian languages

Dreaming of Words

Dreaming of Words is a 2021 Indian documentary film directed and produced by Nandan.

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Dutch language

Dutch (Nederlands.) is a West Germanic language, spoken by about 25 million people as a first language and 5 million as a second language and is the third most spoken Germanic language.

See Multilingualism and Dutch language

Dutch people

The Dutch (Dutch) are an ethnic group native to the Netherlands.

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Eastern Herzegovinian dialect

The Eastern Herzegovinian dialect (Serbo-Croatian: istočnohercegovački / источнохерцеговачки) is the most widespread subdialect of the Shtokavian dialect of Serbo-Croatian, both by territory and the number of speakers.

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Ecclesiastical Latin

Ecclesiastical Latin, also called Church Latin or Liturgical Latin, is a form of Latin developed to discuss Christian thought in Late antiquity and used in Christian liturgy, theology, and church administration to the present day, especially in the Catholic Church.

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Economics of language

The economics of language is an emerging field of study concerning a range of topics such as the effect of language skills on income and trade, the costs and benefits of language planning options, the preservation of minority languages, etc.

See Multilingualism and Economics of language

EF English Proficiency Index

The EF English Proficiency Index (EF EPI) attempts to rank countries by the equity of English language skills amongst those adults who took the EF test.

See Multilingualism and EF English Proficiency Index

Empathy

Empathy is generally described as the ability to take on another's perspective, to understand, feel, and possibly share and respond to their experience.

See Multilingualism and Empathy

Ems Ukaz

The Ems Ukaz or Ems Ukase (Emsskiy ukaz; Ems'kyy ukaz), was an internal decree (ukaz) of Emperor Alexander II of Russia issued on banning the use of the Ukrainian language in print except for reprinting old documents.

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English in computing

The English language is sometimes described as the lingua franca of computing.

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English language

English is a West Germanic language in the Indo-European language family, whose speakers, called Anglophones, originated in early medieval England on the island of Great Britain.

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English-only movement

The English-only movement, also known as the Official English movement, is a political movement that advocates for the exclusive use of the English language in official United States government communication through the establishment of English as the only official language in the United States.

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Eponym

An eponym is a person, a place, or a thing after whom or for which someone or something is, or is believed to be, named.

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Ethnic groups in Europe

Europeans are the focus of European ethnology, the field of anthropology related to the various ethnic groups that reside in the states of Europe.

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Europe

Europe is a continent located entirely in the Northern Hemisphere and mostly in the Eastern Hemisphere.

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European Day of Languages

The European Day of Languages is observed on 26 September, as proclaimed by the Council of Europe on 6 December 2001, at the end of the European Year of Languages (2001), which had been jointly organised by the Council of Europe and the European Union. Multilingualism and European Day of Languages are language acquisition.

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European Union

The European Union (EU) is a supranational political and economic union of member states that are located primarily in Europe.

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Executive functions

In cognitive science and neuropsychology, executive functions (collectively referred to as executive function and cognitive control) are a set of cognitive processes that are necessary for the cognitive control of behavior: selecting and successfully monitoring behaviors that facilitate the attainment of chosen goals.

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Farrar, Straus and Giroux

Farrar, Straus and Giroux (FSG) is an American book publishing company, founded in 1946 by Roger Williams Straus Jr. and John C. Farrar.

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Finland

Finland, officially the Republic of Finland, is a Nordic country in Northern Europe.

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Finnish language

Finnish (endonym: suomi or suomen kieli) is a Finnic language of the Uralic language family, spoken by the majority of the population in Finland and by ethnic Finns outside of Finland.

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First language

A first language (L1), native language, native tongue, or mother tongue is the first language a person has been exposed to from birth or within the critical period. Multilingualism and first language are language acquisition.

See Multilingualism and First language

Framing effect (psychology)

The framing effect is a cognitive bias in which people decide between options based on whether the options are presented with positive or negative connotations.

See Multilingualism and Framing effect (psychology)

François Grosjean

François Grosjean is a Professor Emeritus and former Director of the Language and Speech Processing Laboratory at the University of Neuchâtel (Switzerland).

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Frisia

Frisia is a cross-border cultural region in Northwestern Europe.

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Frisian languages

The Frisian languages are a closely related group of West Germanic languages, spoken by about 400,000 Frisian people, who live on the southern fringes of the North Sea in the Netherlands and Germany.

See Multilingualism and Frisian languages

German language

German (Standard High German: Deutsch) is a West Germanic language in the Indo-European language family, mainly spoken in Western and Central Europe. It is the most widely spoken and official or co-official language in Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Liechtenstein, and the Italian province of South Tyrol.

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Giannina Braschi

Giannina Braschi (born February 5, 1953) is a Puerto Rican poet, novelist, dramatist, and scholar.

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Giuseppe Caspar Mezzofanti

Giuseppe Gasparo Mezzofanti (17 September 1774 – 15 March 1849) was an Italian cardinal known for being a hyperpolyglot.

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Gloria E. Anzaldúa

Gloria Evangelina Anzaldúa (September 26, 1942 – May 15, 2004) was an American scholar of Chicana feminism, cultural theory, and queer theory.

See Multilingualism and Gloria E. Anzaldúa

Gloss (annotation)

A gloss is a brief notation, especially a marginal or interlinear one, of the meaning of a word or wording in a text.

See Multilingualism and Gloss (annotation)

Grammar

In linguistics, a grammar is the set of rules for how a natural language is structured, as demonstrated by its speakers or writers.

See Multilingualism and Grammar

Greek language

Greek (Elliniká,; Hellēnikḗ) is an independent branch of the Indo-European family of languages, native to Greece, Cyprus, Italy (in Calabria and Salento), southern Albania, and other regions of the Balkans, the Black Sea coast, Asia Minor, and the Eastern Mediterranean.

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Guillermo Gómez-Peña

Guillermo Gómez-Peña is a Mexican/Chicano performance artist, writer, activist, and educator.

See Multilingualism and Guillermo Gómez-Peña

Half of a Yellow Sun

Half of a Yellow Sun is a novel by Nigerian author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie.

See Multilingualism and Half of a Yellow Sun

Hebrew language

Hebrew (ʿÎbrit) is a Northwest Semitic language within the Afroasiatic language family.

See Multilingualism and Hebrew language

Helsinki slang

Helsinki slang or ('Helsinki's slang', from Swedish stad, 'city'; see etymology) is a local dialect and a sociolect of the Finnish language mainly used in the capital city of Helsinki.

See Multilingualism and Helsinki slang

Huichol

The Huichol or Wixárika are an indigenous people of Mexico and the United States living in the Sierra Madre Occidental range in the states of Nayarit, Jalisco, Zacatecas, and Durango, as well as in the United States in the states of California, Arizona, New Mexico, and Texas.

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Ianthi-Maria Tsimpli

Ianthi-Maria Tsimpli (born 2 February 1964) is a Greek linguist and Chair of English and Applied Linguistics at the University of Cambridge.

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Idiom

An idiom is a phrase or expression that usually presents a figurative, non-literal meaning attached to the phrase.

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Igbo language

Igbo (Standard Igbo: Ásụ̀sụ́ Ìgbò) is the principal native language cluster of the Igbo people, an ethnicity in the Southeastern part of Nigeria.

See Multilingualism and Igbo language

Immigration

Immigration is the international movement of people to a destination country of which they are not usual residents or where they do not possess nationality in order to settle as permanent residents.

See Multilingualism and Immigration

India

India, officially the Republic of India (ISO), is a country in South Asia.

See Multilingualism and India

Intelligence quotient

An intelligence quotient (IQ) is a total score derived from a set of standardised tests or subtests designed to assess human intelligence.

See Multilingualism and Intelligence quotient

Interlinguistics

Interlinguistics, also known as cosmoglottics, is the science of planned languages as it has existed for more than a century.

See Multilingualism and Interlinguistics

International Journal of Bilingualism

The International Journal of Bilingualism is a peer-reviewed academic journal that publishes papers in the field of linguistics.

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Internationalization and localization

In computing, internationalization and localization (American) or internationalisation and localisation (British), often abbreviated i18n and l10n respectively, are means of adapting computer software to different languages, regional peculiarities and technical requirements of a target locale.

See Multilingualism and Internationalization and localization

Italian language

Italian (italiano,, or lingua italiana) is a Romance language of the Indo-European language family that evolved from the Vulgar Latin of the Roman Empire.

See Multilingualism and Italian language

Japan

Japan is an island country in East Asia, located in the Pacific Ocean off the northeast coast of the Asian mainland.

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Jared Diamond

Jared Mason Diamond (born September 10, 1937) is an American scientist, historian, and author.

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Jargon

Jargon or technical language is the specialized terminology associated with a particular field or area of activity.

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Jewish languages

Jewish languages are the various languages and dialects that developed in Jewish communities in the diaspora.

See Multilingualism and Jewish languages

Joseph Brodsky

Iosif Aleksandrovich Brodsky (Иосиф Александрович Бродский; 24 May 1940 – 28 January 1996) was a Russian and American poet and essayist.

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Kannada

Kannada (ಕನ್ನಡ), formerly also known as Canarese, is a Dravidian language spoken predominantly by the people of Karnataka in southwestern India, with minorities in all neighbouring states.

See Multilingualism and Kannada

Language

Language is a structured system of communication that consists of grammar and vocabulary.

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Language acquisition

Language acquisition is the process by which humans acquire the capacity to perceive and comprehend language.

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Language acquisition device

The Language Acquisition Device (LAD) is a claim from language acquisition research proposed by Noam Chomsky in the 1960s. Multilingualism and language acquisition device are language acquisition.

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Language attrition

Language attrition is the process of decreasing proficiency in or losing a language.

See Multilingualism and Language attrition

Language contact

Language contact occurs when speakers of two or more languages or varieties interact with and influence each other.

See Multilingualism and Language contact

Language legislation in Belgium

This article outlines the legislative chronology concerning the use of official languages in Belgium.

See Multilingualism and Language legislation in Belgium

Language transfer

Language transfer is the application of linguistic features from one language to another by a bilingual or multilingual speaker.

See Multilingualism and Language transfer

Languages of the European Union

The European Union (EU) has 24 official languages, of which threeEnglish, French and Germanhave the status of "procedural" languages of the European Commission (whereas the European Parliament accepts all official languages as working languages).

See Multilingualism and Languages of the European Union

Latino literature

Latino literature is literature written by people of Latin American ancestry, often but not always in English, most notably by Mexican Americans, Puerto Ricans, Cuban Americans, and Dominican Americans, many of whom were born in the United States.

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Latino poetry

Latino poetry is a branch of American poetry written by poets born or living in the United States who are of Latin American origin or descent and whose roots are tied to the Americas and their languages, cultures, and geography.

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Lingua franca

A lingua franca (for plurals see), also known as a bridge language, common language, trade language, auxiliary language, vehicular language, or link language, is a language systematically used to make communication possible between groups of people who do not share a native language or dialect, particularly when it is a third language that is distinct from both of the speakers' native languages.

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Linguapax Prize

The International Linguapax Award is awarded annually on International Mother Language Day (21 February) by Linguapax (Linguapax International) "which recognises and awards the actions carried out in different areas in favour of the preservation of linguistic diversity, revitalization and reactivation of linguistic communities and the promotion of multilingualism".

See Multilingualism and Linguapax Prize

Linguistic relativity

The idea of linguistic relativity, known also as the Whorf hypothesis, the Sapir–Whorf hypothesis, or Whorfianism, is a principle suggesting that the structure of a language influences its speakers' worldview or cognition, and thus individuals' languages determine or influence their perceptions of the world.

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Linguistic rights

Linguistic rights are the human and civil rights concerning the individual and collective right to choose the language or languages for communication in a private or public atmosphere.

See Multilingualism and Linguistic rights

Linguistics

Linguistics is the scientific study of language.

See Multilingualism and Linguistics

List of countries and territories where English is an official language

The following is a list of countries and territories where English is an official language used in citizen interactions with government officials.

See Multilingualism and List of countries and territories where English is an official language

List of countries and territories where French is an official language

French is an official language in 32 independent nations which is the second most geographically widespread official language in the world after English.

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List of countries and territories where German is an official language

The following is a list of the countries and territories where German is an official language (also known as the Germanosphere).

See Multilingualism and List of countries and territories where German is an official language

List of European Commission portfolios

A portfolio in the European Commission is an area of responsibility assigned to a European Commissioner, usually connected to one or several Directorates-General (DGs).

See Multilingualism and List of European Commission portfolios

List of languages by number of native speakers

Human languages ranked by their number of native speakers are as follows.

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List of multilingual countries and regions

This is an incomplete list of areas with either multilingualism at the community level or at the personal level.

See Multilingualism and List of multilingual countries and regions

Logic

Logic is the study of correct reasoning.

See Multilingualism and Logic

Lusatia

Lusatia (Łużyce, Łužica, Łužyca, Lužice) is a historical region in Central Europe, territorially split between Germany and modern-day Poland.

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Macaronic language

Macaronic language is any expression using a mixture of languages, particularly bilingual puns or situations in which the languages are otherwise used in the same context (rather than simply discrete segments of a text being in different languages).

See Multilingualism and Macaronic language

Malayalam

Malayalam is a Dravidian language spoken in the Indian state of Kerala and the union territories of Lakshadweep and Puducherry (Mahé district) by the Malayali people.

See Multilingualism and Malayalam

Malays (ethnic group)

Malays (Orang Melayu, Jawi) are an Austronesian ethnoreligious group native to eastern Sumatra, the Malay Peninsula and coastal Borneo, as well as the smaller islands that lie between these locations.

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Malaysia

Malaysia is a country in Southeast Asia.

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Martha's Vineyard

Martha's Vineyard, often simply called the Vineyard, is an island in the U.S. state of Massachusetts, lying just south of Cape Cod.

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Martha's Vineyard Sign Language

Martha's Vineyard Sign Language (MVSL) was a village sign-language that was once widely used on the island of Martha's Vineyard from the early 18th century to 1952.

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Mayan languages

The Mayan languagesIn linguistics, it is conventional to use Mayan when referring to the languages, or an aspect of a language.

See Multilingualism and Mayan languages

Metatypy

Metatypy is a type of morphosyntactic and semantic language change brought about by language contact involving multilingual speakers.

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Michael Erard

Michael Erard (born 27 December 1967) is an American non-fiction writer and journalist.

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Middle High German

Middle High German (MHG; Mittelhochdeutsch (Mhdt., Mhd.)) is the term for the form of German spoken in the High Middle Ages.

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Ministry of Aliyah and Integration

The Ministry of Aliyah and Integration (Ministry of Immigration and Absorption before 2017) (משרד העלייה והקליטה, Misrad HaAliyah VeHaKlita) is a ministry of the Israeli government responsible for providing assistance to immigrants.

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Ministry of Interior (Israel)

The Ministry of Interior (משרד הפנים, Misrad HaPnim; وزارة الداخلية) in the State of Israel is one of the government offices that is responsible for local government, citizenship and residency, identity cards, and student and entry visas.

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Modern Standard Arabic

Modern Standard Arabic (MSA) or Modern Written Arabic (MWA) is the variety of standardized, literary Arabic that developed in the Arab world in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and in some usages also the variety of spoken Arabic that approximates this written standard.

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Monolingualism

Monoglottism (Greek μόνος monos, "alone, solitary", + γλῶττα, "tongue, language") or, more commonly, monolingualism or unilingualism, is the condition of being able to speak only a single language, as opposed to multilingualism.

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Montenegrin language

Montenegrin (crnogorski, црногорски) is a normative variety of the Serbo-Croatian language mainly used by Montenegrins and is the official language of Montenegro.

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Multi-competence

Multi-competence is a concept in second language acquisition formulated by Vivian Cook that refers to the knowledge of more than one language in one person's mind. Multilingualism and Multi-competence are language acquisition.

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Multilingual education

Multilingual education (MLE) typically refers to "first-language-first" education, that is, schooling which begins in the mother tongue, or first language, and transitions to additional languages.

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Multilingual education in Africa

Multilingual education in Africa is an outlook on how to approach teaching students in the different states in Africa considering the different possible languages to use for instruction.

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Multilingualism and globalization

Globalization has had major effects on the spread and ascribed value of multilingualism.

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Multilingualism in Luxembourg

Multilingualism is a part of everyday life for the population of Luxembourg.

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Muteness

In human development, muteness or mutism is defined as an absence of speech, with or without an ability to hear the speech of others.

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Mutual intelligibility

In linguistics, mutual intelligibility is a relationship between languages or dialects in which speakers of different but related varieties can readily understand each other without prior familiarity or special effort.

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Nahuatl

Nahuatl, Aztec, or Mexicano is a language or, by some definitions, a group of languages of the Uto-Aztecan language family.

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Neil Smith (linguist)

Neilson Voyne Smith FBA (born 1939, died 16 November 2023), known as Neil Smith, was Emeritus Professor of Linguistics at University College London. He wrote his PhD (1964) on the grammar of Nupe, a language of Nigeria. Since then his research has encompassed theoretical syntax, language acquisition, the savant syndrome, and general linguistic theory, particularly the work of Noam Chomsky.

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Njattyela Sreedharan

Njattyela Sreedharan (ഞാറ്റ്യേല ശ്രീധരൻ; born in 1938) is a lexicographer from Thalassery in Kerala.

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Noam Chomsky

Avram Noam Chomsky (born December 7, 1928) is an American professor and public intellectual known for his work in linguistics, political activism, and social criticism.

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Non-convergent discourse

A non-convergent discourse (NCD) is a discourse in which the participants do not converge in their language, which results in the use of different languages.

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Non-English-based programming languages

Non-English-based programming languages are programming languages that do not use keywords taken from or inspired by English vocabulary.

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Occitan language

Occitan (occitan), also known as (langue d'oc) by its native speakers, sometimes also referred to as Provençal, is a Romance language spoken in Southern France, Monaco, Italy's Occitan Valleys, as well as Spain's Val d'Aran in Catalonia; collectively, these regions are sometimes referred to as Occitania.

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Official bilingualism in Canada

The official languages of Canada are English and French, which "have equality of status and equal rights and privileges as to their use in all institutions of the Parliament and Government of Canada," according to Canada's constitution.

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Official multilingualism

Official multilingualism is the policy adopted by some states of recognizing multiple languages as official and producing all official documents, and handling all correspondence and official dealings, including court procedure, in these languages.

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One person, one language

The “one person, one language” approach is a popular method adopted by parents attempting to raise simultaneous bilingual children. Multilingualism and one person, one language are language acquisition.

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Open-mindedness

Open-mindedness is receptiveness to new ideas.

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Papiamento

Papiamento or Papiamentu (Papiaments) is a Portuguese-based creole language spoken in the Dutch Caribbean.

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Persian language

Persian, also known by its endonym Farsi (Fārsī|), is a Western Iranian language belonging to the Iranian branch of the Indo-Iranian subdivision of the Indo-European languages.

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Pidgin

A pidgin, or pidgin language, is a grammatically simplified means of communication that develops between two or more groups of people that do not have a language in common: typically, its vocabulary and grammar are limited and often drawn from several languages.

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Pluricentric language

A pluricentric language or polycentric language is a language with several codified standard forms, often corresponding to different countries.

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Plurilingualism

Plurilingualism is the ability of a person who has competence in more than one language to switch between multiple languages depending on the situation for ease of communication. Multilingualism and Plurilingualism are language acquisition.

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Political correctness

"Political correctness" (adjectivally "politically correct"; commonly abbreviated to P.C.) is a term used to describe language, policies, or measures that are intended to avoid offense or disadvantage to members of particular groups in society.

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Portuguese language

Portuguese (português or, in full, língua portuguesa) is a Western Romance language of the Indo-European language family originating from the Iberian Peninsula of Europe.

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Postcolonial feminism

Postcolonial feminism is a form of feminism that developed as a response to feminism focusing solely on the experiences of women in Western cultures and former colonies.

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Productivity software

Productivity software (also called personal productivity software or office productivity software) is application software used for producing information (such as documents, presentations, worksheets, databases, charts, graphs, digital paintings, electronic music and digital video).

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Pronunciation

Pronunciation is the way in which a word or a language is spoken.

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Puberty

Puberty is the process of physical changes through which a child's body matures into an adult body capable of sexual reproduction.

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Purple Hibiscus

Purple Hibiscus is a novel written by the Nigerian author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie.

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Regional language

* A regional language is a language spoken in a region of a sovereign state, whether it be a small area, a federated state or province or some wider area.

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Rhetoric

Rhetoric is the art of persuasion.

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Rod Ellis

Rod Ellis is a Kenneth W. Mildenberger Prize-winning British linguist.

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Routledge

Routledge is a British multinational publisher.

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Russian language

Russian is an East Slavic language, spoken primarily in Russia.

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Russians

Russians (russkiye) are an East Slavic ethnic group native to Eastern Europe.

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Sandra Cisneros

Sandra Cisneros (born December 20, 1954) is an American writer.

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Savant syndrome

Savant syndrome is a phenomenon where someone demonstrates exceptional aptitude in one domain, such as art or mathematics, despite significant social or intellectual impairment.

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Scandinavia

Scandinavia is a subregion of Northern Europe, with strong historical, cultural, and linguistic ties between its constituent peoples.

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Scots language

ScotsThe endonym for Scots is Scots.

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Second language

A second language (L2) is a language spoken in addition to one's first language (L1).

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Second-generation immigrants in the United States

Second-generation immigrants in the United States are individuals born and raised in the United States who have at least one foreign-born parent.

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Sequential bilingualism

Sequential bilingualism occurs when a person becomes bilingual by first learning one language and then another. Multilingualism and Sequential bilingualism are language acquisition.

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Serbian language

Serbian (српски / srpski) is the standardized variety of the Serbo-Croatian language mainly used by Serbs.

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Serbo-Croatian

Serbo-Croatian – also called Serbo-Croat, Serbo-Croat-Bosnian (SCB), Bosnian-Croatian-Serbian (BCS), and Bosnian-Croatian-Montenegrin-Serbian (BCMS) – is a South Slavic language and the primary language of Serbia, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and Montenegro.

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Shtokavian

Shtokavian or Štokavian (štokavski / штокавски) is the prestige supradialect of the pluricentric Serbo-Croatian language and the basis of its Serbian, Croatian, Bosnian and Montenegrin standards.

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Simultaneous bilingualism

Simultaneous bilingualism is a form of bilingualism that takes place when a child becomes bilingual by learning two languages from birth. Multilingualism and Simultaneous bilingualism are language acquisition.

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Singapore

Singapore, officially the Republic of Singapore, is an island country and city-state in maritime Southeast Asia.

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Singlish

Singlish (a portmanteau of Singapore and English); formally known as Colloquial Singaporean English, is an English-based creole language originating in Singapore.

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Slang

A slang is a vocabulary (words, phrases, and linguistic usages) of an informal register, common in everyday conversation but avoided in formal writing.

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Slovak language

Slovak (endonym: slovenčina or slovenský jazyk), is a West Slavic language of the Czech–Slovak group, written in Latin script.

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Sociolinguistics

Sociolinguistics is the descriptive study of the effect of any or all aspects of society, including cultural norms, expectations, and context, on language and the ways it is used.

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Sorbian languages

The Sorbian languages (serbska rěč, serbska rěc) are the Upper Sorbian language and Lower Sorbian language, two closely related and partially mutually intelligible languages spoken by the Sorbs, a West Slavic ethno-cultural minority in the Lusatia region of Eastern Germany.

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South Korea

South Korea, officially the Republic of Korea (ROK), is a country in East Asia.

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South Slavic languages

The South Slavic languages are one of three branches of the Slavic languages.

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Spanglish

Spanglish (a portmanteau of the words "Spanish" and "English") is any language variety (such as a contact dialect, hybrid language, pidgin, or creole language) that results from conversationally combining Spanish and English.

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Spanish language in the United States

Spanish is the second most spoken language in the United States.

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Standard language

A standard language (or standard variety, standard dialect, standardized dialect or simply standard) is a language variety that has undergone substantial codification of its grammar, lexicon, writing system, or other features and stands out among other varieties in a community as the one with the highest status or prestige.

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Stephen Krashen

Stephen D. Krashen (born May 14, 1941) is an American linguist, educational researcher and activist, who is Emeritus Professor of Education at the University of Southern California.

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Sub-Saharan Africa

Sub-Saharan Africa, Subsahara, or Non-Mediterranean Africa is the area and regions of the continent of Africa that lie south of the Sahara.

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Swedish language

Swedish (svenska) is a North Germanic language from the Indo-European language family, spoken predominantly in Sweden and in parts of Finland.

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Tamil language

Tamil (தமிழ்) is a Dravidian language natively spoken by the Tamil people of South Asia.

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Tatar language

Tatar (татар теле, tatar tele or татарча, tatarça) is a Turkic language spoken by the Volga Tatars mainly located in modern Tatarstan (European Russia), as well as Siberia and Crimea.

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Tatars

The Tatars, in the Collins English Dictionary formerly also spelt Tartars, is an umbrella term for different Turkic ethnic groups bearing the name "Tatar" across Eastern Europe and Asia. Initially, the ethnonym Tatar possibly referred to the Tatar confederation. That confederation was eventually incorporated into the Mongol Empire when Genghis Khan unified the various steppe tribes.

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Tatarstan

Tatarstan (Татарстан; Татарстан), officially the Republic of Tatarstan, sometimes also called Tataria, is a republic of Russia located in Eastern Europe.

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Telugu language

Telugu (తెలుగు|) is a Dravidian language native to the Indian states of Andhra Pradesh and Telangana, where it is also the official language.

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The Hanen Centre

The Hanen Centre is a not-for-profit registered charitable organization, based in Toronto, Canada.

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The House on Mango Street

The House on Mango Street is a 1984 novel by Mexican-American author Sandra Cisneros.

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The Multilingual Library

The Multilingual Library in Oslo, Norway (Det flerspråklige bibliotek) is a competence centre for multicultural library services, and acts as an advisor to libraries.

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The World Until Yesterday

The World Until Yesterday: What Can We Learn from Traditional Societies? is a 2012 popular science book by Jared Diamond.

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Tifinagh

Tifinagh (Tuareg Berber language:; Neo-Tifinagh:; Berber Latin alphabet: Tifinaɣ) is a script used to write the Berber languages.

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Translanguaging

Translanguaging is a term that can refer to different aspects of multilingualism.

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Troika (Julia Kogan album)

Troika: Russia's westerly poetry in three orchestral song cycles is a 2011 album of contemporary classical songs performed by soprano Julia Kogan, who also conceived the project.

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Trolley problem

The trolley problem is a series of thought experiments in ethics, psychology and artificial intelligence involving stylized ethical dilemmas of whether to sacrifice one person to save a larger number.

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Tsar

Tsar (also spelled czar, tzar, or csar; tsar; tsar'; car) is a title historically used by Slavic monarchs.

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Ukrainian language

Ukrainian (label) is an East Slavic language of the Indo-European language family spoken primarily in Ukraine.

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United States

The United States of America (USA or U.S.A.), commonly known as the United States (US or U.S.) or America, is a country primarily located in North America.

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Vivian Cook (linguist)

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Vladimir Nabokov

Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov (Владимир Владимирович Набоков; 2 July 1977), also known by the pen name Vladimir Sirin (Владимир Сирин), was a Russian-American novelist, poet, translator, and entomologist.

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Vocabulary

A vocabulary (also known as a lexicon) is a set of words, typically the set in a language or the set known to an individual.

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Vulgar Latin

Vulgar Latin, also known as Popular or Colloquial Latin, is the range of non-formal registers of Latin spoken from the Late Roman Republic onward.

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Web browser

A web browser is an application for accessing websites.

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Wiley (publisher)

John Wiley & Sons, Inc., commonly known as Wiley, is an American multinational publishing company that focuses on academic publishing and instructional materials.

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World population

In world demographics, the world population is the total number of humans currently living.

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Yiddish

Yiddish (ייִדיש, יידיש or אידיש, yidish or idish,,; ייִדיש-טײַטש, historically also Yidish-Taytsh) is a West Germanic language historically spoken by Ashkenazi Jews.

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Yle

Yleisradio Oy (Rundradion Ab), abbreviated as Yle (formerly styled in all uppercase until 2012), translated into English as the Finnish Broadcasting Company, is Finland's national public broadcasting company, founded in 1926.

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Yugoslavia

Yugoslavia (Југославија; Jugoslavija; Југославија) was a country in Southeast and Central Europe that existed from 1918 to 1992.

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2020 Summer Olympics

The officially the and officially branded as were an international multi-sport event held from 23 July to 8 August 2021 in Tokyo, Japan, with some preliminary events that began on 21 July 2021.

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See also

Neurolinguistics

Sociology of language

References

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