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Multilingualism

Multilingualism is the use of more than one language, either by an individual speaker or by a group of speakers. When the languages are only two, it is usually called bilingualism.

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Multilingualism

Nodes249
Edges248
Triples205
Avg. degree1.99
Density0.008032
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Multilingualism

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related to Further reading · 79
Multilingualism → Are You Another Person, Assessment, Baker, Basingstoke, Berkeley Language Center, Bhatia, Bialystok, Bilingual Education, Bilingualism, Blackwell, Blackwell Publishing, Burck, Catharina Lojander- Visapää, Catharina Lojander-Visapää, Charlotte, Christina Korkman, Claire, Colin, Development, Edistudio
see also · 18
Multilingualism → Ability, Cultural, Form, Library, Linguistic Parenting MethodSpanish, Multilingual Library, NorwayOne, Oslo, PrizeList, Project, Quality, Relationship, Right, State, Subfield, Type, United StatesUnexpected, Using
related to Personality · 15
Multilingualism → Because, Birth, Eleven, François Grosjean, Growing, However, Languages, Sapir, Some, The, This, Three Languages, What, Whorf, Xiao-lei Wang
related to In communities · 13
Multilingualism → Africa, Canada, English, French, In, India, Linguist Ekkehard Wolff, Malaysia, Singapore, Some, Sub-Saharan Africa, When, Widespread
related to Legislation and movements · 13
Multilingualism → Annual, Belgian, Belgium, European Commissioner, European UnionOfficial, International, Language, Languages, Mother Language Day, MultilingualismEuropean Day, Political, September, United Nations
related to Definition · 9
Multilingualism → At, Cook, Instead, Modern, People, Since, Someone, The, Vivian Cook
related to history · 9
Multilingualism → Aramaic, Church Latin, English, Hebrew, Historical, Jewish, Latin, The, Today
related to Neuroscience · 7
Multilingualism → Bilingual, In, Insights, Neurological, Neuroscience, The, These
related to Economic benefits · 6
Multilingualism → Agirdag, Bilinguals, GDP, Switzerland, Switzerland's GDP, United States
is a · 3
Multilingualism → study of multilingualism within the field of neurology, subject of debate in the same way as that of language fluency, use of more than one language

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language languages english multilingual one also people speakers two speak bilingual may native second many use different common bilingualism however

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Multilingualismis ause of more than one language0.90text
Multilingualismis asubject of debate in the same way as that of language fluency0.90text
Multilingualismis astudy of multilingualism within the field of neurology0.90text
Scandinaviainstance ofThis occurs especially in regions0.80text
the Beneluxinstance ofThis occurs especially in regions0.80text
as well as among Germanophonesinstance ofThis occurs especially in regions0.80text
but the phenomenon has also been expanding into some non-Germanic countriesinstance ofThis occurs especially in regions0.80text
bilingual signsinstance ofevidence of multilingualism in an area includes things0.80text
which represent the same message in more than one languageinstance ofevidence of multilingualism in an area includes things0.80text
the communication's contentinstance ofvarying their choice of language depending on factors0.80text
context or emotional intensityinstance ofvarying their choice of language depending on factors0.80text
the presence or absence of third-party speakers of one language or the otherinstance ofvarying their choice of language depending on factors0.80text

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