📚 noun • entry_id 59724
sesquilingualism
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sesquilingüismo
The condition of being sesquilingual; the ability to speak one language fluently, and a second language only to a limited extent.
In Pilch's terminology, sesquilingualism ("mastery of one-and-a-half languages") occurs when "all members of a given society speak the inferior [sic] language, but only some of its…
The transitional zone can be regarded as the dialect boundary, where the two different dialects meet but there is no significant gap in mutual intelligibility due to the sesquiling…
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