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  2. Neuroscience of multilingualism - Wikipedia

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    Neuroscience of multilingualism is the study of multilingualism within the field of neurology.These studies include the representation of different language systems in the brain, the effects of multilingualism on the brain's structural plasticity, aphasia in multilingual individuals, and bimodal bilinguals (people who can speak one sign language and one oral language).

  3. Monolingualism - Wikipedia

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    Monolingualism. Monoglottism (Greek μόνος monos, "alone, solitary", + γλῶττα glotta, "tongue, language") or, more commonly, monolingualism or unilingualism, is the condition of being able to speak only a single language, as opposed to multilingualism. In a different context, "unilingualism" may refer to a language policy which ...

  4. Multilingualism - Wikipedia

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    The logo and name of the Swiss federal administration in the four national languages of Switzerland (German, French, Italian, and Romansh) Multilingualism is the use of more than one language, either by an individual speaker or by a group of speakers. When the languages are just two, it is usually called Bilingualism.

  5. List of multilingual countries and regions - Wikipedia

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    Indonesians speak about 746 different languages. [187] Javanese has the most users in terms of native speakers (about 80 million). However, the sole official (or so-called "unity language") is Indonesian which has only 30 million L1 speakers (compared to Indonesia 260 million population). The role of Indonesian is important to glue together ...

  6. Diglossia - Wikipedia

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    v. t. e. In linguistics, diglossia (/ daɪˈɡlɒsiə / dy-GLOSS-ee-ə, US also / daɪˈɡlɔːsiə / dy-GLAW-see-ə) is where two dialects or languages are used (in fairly strict compartmentalization) by a single language community. In addition to the community's everyday or vernacular language variety (labeled "L" or "low" variety), a second ...

  7. Language dominance - Wikipedia

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    Language dominance. A dominant language may be: among the languages known by a multilingual person, the one that they have greater proficiency in. among the languages spoken in an area, the one with the greatest numbers of speakers, prestige or institutional support.

  8. Linguistics - Wikipedia

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    Linguistics is the scientific study of language. [1] [2] [3] The areas of linguistic analysis are syntax (rules governing the structure of sentences), semantics (meaning), morphology (structure of words), phonetics (speech sounds and equivalent gestures in sign languages), phonology (the abstract sound system of a particular language), and pragmatics (how the context of use contributes to ...

  9. Multilingualism and globalization - Wikipedia

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    Multilingualism is considered the use of more than one language by an individual or community of speakers. [1] Globalization is commonly defined as the international movement toward economic, trade, technological, and communications integration and concerns itself with interdependence and interconnectedness.