sesquilingual

Adjective

 * 1) Pertaining to one language, plus a second in a limited capacity, degree, or content.
 * 2) * 2007 Hildegard L.C. Tristram, "On the 'Celticity' of Irish Newspapers - A Research Report," in The Celtic Languages in Contact: Papers from the Workshop Within the Framework of the XIII International Congress of Celtic Studies, Bonn, 26-27 July 2007, Universitätsverlag Potsdam, 2007
 * Ireland's sesquilingual situation is thus the inverse of the 'normal' European situation, where English is the prestige language and the native language of lower prestige.
 * 1)  Able to communicate fluently in one language, but only to a degree in another.
 * 2) * 2004 Bill Sherk, 500 Years of New Words, Dundam, 2004, p. 187.
 * The author of this dictionary coined the term sesquilingual in 1975 to describe people who know one language and part of another, a term that probably applies to the majority of Canadians, who know English and a smattering of French, or vice versa.
 * 1) * 2004 Bill Sherk, 500 Years of New Words, Dundam, 2004, p. 187.
 * The author of this dictionary coined the term sesquilingual in 1975 to describe people who know one language and part of another, a term that probably applies to the majority of Canadians, who know English and a smattering of French, or vice versa.
 * The author of this dictionary coined the term sesquilingual in 1975 to describe people who know one language and part of another, a term that probably applies to the majority of Canadians, who know English and a smattering of French, or vice versa.

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