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- See also changes related to Multilingualism, or pages that link to Multilingualism or to this page or whose text contains "Multilingualism".
Parent topics
- Linguistics [r]: The scientific study of language. [e]
- Sociolinguistics [r]: Branch of linguistics concerned with language in social contexts - how people use language, how it varies, how it contributes to users' sense of identity, etc. [e]
- Language acquisition [r]: The study of how language comes to users of first and second languages. [e]
Subtopics
- Lingua franca [r]: Any language used for widespread communication between groups who do not share a native language or where native speakers are typically in the minority; name from 'Lingua Franca', a pidgin once used around the Mediterranean. [e]
- Contact language [r]: any language which is created through contact between two or more existing languages; may occur when people who share no native language need to communicate, or when a language of one group becomes used for wider communication. [e]
- Language attrition [r]: The loss of a first or second language or a portion of that language by individuals. [e]
- Diglossia [r]: Linguistic situation in which two (often very closely related) languages are used within one speech community, for different purposes. [e]
- Creolistics [r]: The study of creole and pidgin languages. [e]
- Speech community [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Apartheid [r]: The ideological and policy program that dictated racial identity and race relations in South Africa, 1948-1990 [e]
- Auschwitz Concentration Camp [r]: The largest Nazi death camp, in which more than two million people died, located in Poland; first commanded by Rudolf Hoess. [e]
- Online community [r]: An online community is a group of people who are closely interacting mainly online, with a shared, unifying goal for the whole group. [e]
- Romansh language [r]: Romance language spoken in the Graubünden canton of eastern Switzerland; one of the official languages of the country, with about 35,000 speakers. [e]