bilingual community
Dual-language speaking group
A bilingual community is a group or region where two languages are regularly used in daily life—at home, in schools, in commerce, or in government.
The term describes places where bilingualism is the norm rather than the exception: Montreal is a bilingual community where French and English coexist.
Members may vary in their fluency across both languages.
- code-switchingAlternating between linguistic varieties
- heritage languageLanguage of one's ancestors
- diglossiaCoexisting language varieties, distinct roles
- language maintenanceSustaining a speech system
- multiculturalismCoexistence of diverse traditions
immersion programs · home language · cross-cultural communication · executive function · English · fluent · immigrant · cultural preservation · cognitive flexibility · Spanish · diaspora · border towns · translation · multilingual · heritage · accent · ethnic · neighborhood
- language groupsMandarin speakers, heritage speakers, bilinguals, Romance languages, Celtic languages
- borderlandsborderland, borderlands, border, border zone, border region