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Multilingualism

The ability to speak, read, or write several languages or many languages with some facility. Bilingualism is the most common form. (From Random House Unabridged Dictionary, 2d ed)

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Abstract

The ability to speak, read, or write several languages or many languages with some facility. Bilingualism is the most common form. (From Random House Unabridged Dictionary, 2d ed)

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Synonyms

1 entry terms
  • Bilingualism

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Indexing Annotation

IM; do not coord with a Cat Z term to specify the languages, i.e., French-Italian bilingualism = MULTILINGUALISM only & not also FRANCE & ITALY

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History Note

97

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Previous Indexing

  • Language (1968-1996)

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  1. L01w.559w.423w.452w

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References

  1. National Library of Medicine. Multilingualism. Medical Subject Headings (MeSH). 2026. Unique ID D019303. http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/2026/D019303
  2. Multilingualism. In: Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multilingualism
  3. Multilingualism. In: Wikidata. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q30081