equilingual
nounEtymology From equi- + lingual.
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Human sciences, Linguistics, Sciences A person who is equilingual.
- Unilinguals and bilinguals other than equilinguals mostly consume mass media products in the language they know best.1979, Alain Desrochers, Richard Clément, The Social Psychology of Inter-ethnic Contact and Cross-cultural Communication, An Annotated Bibliography, page 59:
- If the equilingual speaks language A or B, the monolingual speakers of that language would recognize that the individual is a speaker of another language.1998, Hortense García Ramirez Kayser, Assessment and Intervention Resource for Hispanic Children, page 33:
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- An equilingual (von Raffler-Engel, 1961), on the other hand, is either ambilingual if both languages are equally native-like or semilingual (Skutnabb-Kangas, 1980) if both are mastered equally poorly.2004, Michel Paradis, A Neurolinguistic Theory of Bilingualism, page 3:
- Derived terms
- equilingualism
- Related terms
- ambilingual