English Explanatory Dictionary

semilingualism

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. The phenomenon of people speaking several languages at a low level of development, with evident deficiencies in all languages.

Word forms

semilingualism

Etymology

From semilingual + -ism, introduced by a Swedish researcher Hansegård N. E. in 1975.

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