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Polyglott: A person able to communicate in multiple languages. [e]
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Parent topics
- Person [r]: An individual human being. [e]
- Linguistics [r]: The scientific study of language. [e]
- Natural language [r]: A communication system based on sequences of acoustic, visual or tactile symbols that serve as units of meaning. [e]
- Foreign language [r]: A language which is associated with another country or culture and is rarely or never used in a speaker's own community; usually taught in classrooms or through self-study, for practical purposes such as travel or doing business, or for pleasure. [e]
- Multilingualism [r]: The state of knowing two or more languages, either in individuals or whole speech communities. [e]
Subtopics
- Native language [r]: A language to which a person was exposed during early childhood, usually by other family members. [e]
- First language acquisition [r]: Study of the processes through which humans acquire language, specifically first languages, which studies infants' acquisition of their native language. [e]
- Second language acquisition [r]: Process by which people learn a second language in addition to their native language(s), where the language to be learned is often referred to as the 'target language'. [e]
- Bilingualism [r]: The state of knowing two languages, either in individuals or whole speech communities; a special case of multilingualism. [e]
- Dictionary [r]: Reference work containing words classed alphabetically and giving information about spelling, etymology and usage. [e]
- Lexicon [r]: Complete set of vocabulary units for a language, including information on their structural specifications (semantic, morphological, syntactic and phonological properties, plus how they inter-relate); also, the mental representation of this lexical knowledge and, in casual usage, a synonym for vocabulary. The word is also common in the titles of dictionaries of Arabic, Aramaic/Syriac, ancient Greek and Hebrew. [e]