sesquilingual
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- Rhymes: -ɪŋɡwəl
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sesquilingual (not comparable) (rare)
- Pertaining to one language, plus a second in a limited capacity, degree, or content.
- 1976, Herbert Pilch, Empirical Linguistics, Munich: Francke, published 1976, page 152:
- Typically, it is believed that this sesquilingual discourse is due to the absence of suitable terms in the inferior language.
- 2007 Hildegard L.C. Tristram, "On the 'Celticity' of Irish Newspapers - A Research Report," in The Celtic Languages in Contact: Papers from the Workshop Within the Framework of the XIII International Congress of Celtic Studies, Bonn, 26-27 July 2007, Universitätsverlag Potsdam, 2007
- Ireland's sesquilingual situation is thus the inverse of the 'normal' European situation, where English is the prestige language and the native language of lower prestige.
- (of a person) Able to communicate fluently in one language, but only to a degree in another.
- 1978, Joseph Yam Ting Woo, “Bilingualism in Hong Kong: The Orient Anglicized”, in Bilingual Research Journal, volume 2, number 2:
- Being already sesquilingual, the Hong Kong Chinese are therefore quite receptive to the teaching of another language.
- 1993 Jan, Thomas M. Paikeday, “Who needs IPA?”, in English Today, volume 9, number 1, pages 38–42:
- 'Sesquilingual' is not a mythical animal like the native speaker or foreign learner, but a newfangled term for someone who is good in one language, say English, and only half as...
- 2004 Bill Sherk, 500 Years of New Words, Dundam, 2004, p. 187.
- The author of this dictionary coined the term sesquilingual in 1975 to describe people who know one language and part of another, a term that probably applies to the majority of Canadians, who know English and a smattering of French, or vice versa.
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