multilingual community
Many-tongued social group
A multilingual community is a group or population where multiple languages are regularly spoken.
This may describe a neighborhood, city, nation, or online space where residents or members communicate in different languages: Miami is a multilingual community where you'll hear Spanish, Haitian Creole, and English on any given block.
The term often appears in discussions of language policy, education, and cultural preservation.
- native speakerOne who grew up speaking it
- bilingualismProficiency in two languages
- multiculturalismCoexistence of diverse traditions
- melting potCultural fusion place
- translationConverting between languages
lost in translation · heritage preservation · ethnic diversity · foreign accent · code-switching · polyglotism · global citizenship · interpretation · diglossia · Esperanto · cultural adaptation · mother tongue · subtitling · interpreters · interpreters
multilingual communitylinguistic purism
Resistance to language change
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