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More specifically, bilingual and trilingual people are those in comparable situations involving two or three languages, respectively. A multilingual person is generally referred to as a polyglot , a term that may also refer to people who learn multiple languages as a hobby.
Luxembourg is a rare example of a truly trilingual society, in that it not only has three official languages – Luxembourgish, French and German [276] – but has a trilingual education system. For the first four years of school, Luxembourgish is the medium of instruction , before giving way to German, which in turn gives way to French.
For example, when action is called for, members of both independent and interdependent social orientations tend to employ role-, rule-, or case-based decision making, as they are much more accessible and allow for less cognitive load, whereas calculation-based mode will be less frequent for relationship decisions in both orientations.
Being trilingual himself, the OP was mocked by his American friend for the way he pronounced a word in English. But the mockin Person Who Knows 3 Languages Puts Rude American In His Place: “The ...
Linguistic discrimination (also called glottophobia, linguicism and languagism) is unfair treatment of people based upon their use of language and the characteristics of their speech, such as their first language, their accent, the perceived size of their vocabulary (whether or not the speaker uses complex and varied words), their modality, and ...
Down Easter or Downeaster, [29] Mainiac, [30] Yankee (rare) Maryland: Marylander Massachusetts: Massachusettsan Bay Stater (official term used by state government) and Citizen of the Commonwealth (identifier used in state law) [31]
Everett's work on the Pirahã language of the Brazilian Amazon [98] found several peculiarities that he interpreted as corresponding to linguistically rare features, such as a lack of numbers and color terms in the way those are otherwise defined and the absence of certain types of clauses.
Being monolingual or unilingual is also said of a text, dictionary, or conversation written or conducted in only one language, and of an entity in which a single language is either used or officially recognized (in particular when being compared with bilingual or multilingual entities or in the presence of individuals speaking different languages).