Polyglossy

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Polyglossy (Greek polý- "a lot" and glṓssa "language") describes the ability to speak several languages.

term

In scientific usage, the ability of a person or a linguistic community to be multilingual is referred to as polyglossy or with the adjective polyglot, whereby several languages ​​or varieties of a language can be meant. The Latin foreign words multilingualism and multilingual are used comparably.

In everyday language, polyglossy is primarily understood as a characteristic of a person: A person who speaks several languages ​​is called polyglot .

According to Veith (2002), polyglossy (multiglossy) consists “... in the competition between a multitude of linguistic subsystems and a higher-level language system”.

See also

literature

  • Werner H. Veith: Sociolinguistics. A workbook with control questions and answers. Narr, Tübingen 2002, ISBN 3-8233-4992-9 ( Narr study books ).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Psycholinguistics. Christian Lehmann, September 12, 2010, pp. 1,1f , accessed December 9, 2010 .