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Monolingualism vs Multilingualism - What's the difference?

monolingualism | multilingualism | Related terms |

Multilingualism is a related term of monolingualism.



As nouns the difference between monolingualism and multilingualism

is that monolingualism is condition of being able to speak only a single language while multilingualism is condition of being able to speak several languages.

monolingualism

English

Noun

(wikipedia monolingualism) (-)
  • condition of being able to speak only a single language

    • Synonyms

    * monoglottism * unilingualism

    Related terms

    * bilinguism * trilinguism * multilinguism English words suffixed with -ism

    multilingualism

    English

    Noun

    (wikipedia multilingualism) (en-noun)
  • condition of being able to speak several languages

    • Related terms

    * monolingualism * bilingualism * trilingualism