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monolingual, a. and n.|mɒnəʊˈlɪŋgwəl|
[f. mono- + lingual a. 4 b.]
A. adj. Speaking only one language; written in a single language.
1953Use of Vernacular Lang. in Educ. (Unesco) ii. 50 It cannot be denied that the business of government is easier in a monolingual than in a multilingual nation. However, it does not follow that legislation or school policy requiring the use of the official language at all times will give the same results as actual monolingualism. 1954L. MacNeice Autumn Sequel 54 At times she is monolingual, monotone, At others mistress of the Tower of Babel. 1968Amer. N. & Q. Mar. 109/1 As a monolingual dictionary and a ready reference work..the Larousse has no parallel in any other language. 1972Language XLVIII 910 The English translations do not, I think, allow the monolingual speaker of English to get any sense of how a speaker of Japanese feels when he is addressed with -san.
B. n. One who speaks only one language.
1956E. Haugen Bilingualism in Americas iv. 77 Any kind of sampling test which adequately measures monolingual skill can be used to make comparisons between monolinguals and bilinguals speaking the same language. 1971G. Ansre in J. Spencer Eng. Lang. W. Afr. 147 Essentially,..in cases of both monolinguals and bilinguals incorporating loans, the results seem similar. 1972H. Kurath Studies Area Linguistics vii. 112 A few of them have even been adopted by English monolinguals of Pennsylvania.
Hence monoˈlingualism, the ability to speak only one language; monoˈlinguist = monolingual n.; monolinˈguistic a. = monolingual a.
1928Observer 8 Apr. 14/3 There is no one living..speaking only Manx and no English. Ten years before that the monolinguists had dwindled to under half a dozen. 1942L. B. Namier Conflicts 3 Union..in monolinguistic national States became in the nineteenth century the political aim of the educated, and in time of the semi-educated, classes in Europe. 1960J. Lodwick Asparagus Trench 66 All the monolinguists who..would opt for Indian tea in Pekin. 1968Y. Malkiel Essays on Linguistic Themes i. 6 It is..held that bilingualism and even trilingualism are more widely disseminated the world over than is strict monolingualism. 1972H. Kurath Studies in Area Linguistics 124 Monolingualism prevails in large parts of the world. |