monolingual
nounEtymology From mono- + lingual.
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a person who knows or uses only a single language; a monoglot
monolingual
adjEtymology From mono- + lingual.
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Knowing or using a single language; written or spoken in a single language.
- Thus approximately 98% of signs contained English, and 93.5% of signs were wholly in English. As far as linguistic landscapes go, this is a case of extreme monolingual dominance in a multilingual setting.2019, Li Huang, James Lambert, “Another Arrow for the Quiver: A New Methodology for Multilingual Researchers”, in Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, →DOI, page 5:
- Derived terms
- monolingualism, monolingualist, monolingually, monolingualness