equilingual

equilingual

English

Etymology

From equi- +‎ lingual.

Pronunciation

  • Rhymes: -ɪŋɡwəl

Adjective

equilingual (not comparable)

  1. (linguistics) Able to speak two or more languages at the same level of proficiency.

Noun

equilingual (plural equilinguals)

  1. (linguistics) A person who is equilingual.
    • 1979, Alain Desrochers, Richard Clément, The Social Psychology of Inter-ethnic Contact and Cross-cultural Communication, An Annotated Bibliography, page 59:
      Unilinguals and bilinguals other than equilinguals mostly consume mass media products in the language they know best.
    • 1998, Hortense García Ramirez Kayser, Assessment and Intervention Resource for Hispanic Children, page 33:
      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.
    • 2004, Michel Paradis, A Neurolinguistic Theory of Bilingualism, page 3:
      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.

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