bilingualism

English

Etymology

From bilingual +‎ -ism.

Noun

bilingualism (countable and uncountable, plural bilingualisms)

1. The condition of being bilingual; the ability to speak two languages.
   • 1955 May, Rev. A. W. V. Mace, “An Irish Journey—1”, in Railway Magazine, page 297:

     At Kingsbridge, the bilingualism of the Irish Republic was evident in the tickets, the station notices, and the neat destination boards on the 10.40 a.m. express to Cork.

Related terms

• monolingualism
• multilingualism
• plurilingualism
• quadrilingualism
• quinquelingualism
• semilingualism
• septilingualism
• sesquilingualism
• sexilingualism
• translingualism
• trilingualism
• unilingualism

Translations

condition of being bilingual

• Albanian: dygjuhësi (sq) f
• Azerbaijani: ikidillilik
• Belarusian: двухмоўе n (dvuxmóŭje)
• Breton: divyezhegezh (br) f
• Catalan: bilingüisme (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 雙語 / 双语 (zh) (shuāngyǔ)

• Czech: bilingvismus (cs) m, dvojjazyčnost f
• Dutch: tweetaligheid (nl) f
• Finnish: kaksikielisyys (fi)
• French: bilinguisme (fr) m
• Galician: bilingüismo (gl) m
• Georgian: ორენოვანება (orenovaneba), ბილინგვიზმი (bilingvizmi)
• German: Zweisprachigkeit (de) f; Bilingualität (de) f, Bilingualismus (de) m, Bilinguität (de) f, Bilinguismus (de) m
• Hungarian: kétnyelvűség (hu)
• Ido: bilingueso (io)
• Irish: dátheangachas m
• Italian: bilinguismo (it) m, bilinguità f
• Kazakh: қостілділік (qostıldılık), екітілділік (ekıtıldılık)
• Kyrgyz: экитилдүүлүк (ekitildüülük), коштилдүүлүк (koştildüülük)
• Lithuanian: dvikalbỹstė f, bilingvi̇̀zmas m
• Macedonian: двојазичност f (dvojazičnost)
• Malay: bilingualisme, kedwibahasaan
• Manx: daa-hengaght f
• Norman: bilîndgisme m
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: tospråklighet m or f, bilingvalisme m, bilingvisme m

  Nynorsk: tospråklegheit f, bilingvalisme m, bilingvisme m, tospråksbruk m or n

• Persian: دوزبانگی (fa)
• Polish: dwujęzyczność (pl) f, bilingwizm (pl) m
• Portuguese: bilinguismo (pt) m
• Romanian: bilingvism (ro) n
• Russian: двуязы́чность f (dvujazýčnostʹ)
• Slovak: bilingvizmus (sk) m
• Spanish: bilingüismo (es) m
• Swedish: tvåspråkighet (sv) c, bilingualism (sv) c (rare)
• Turkmen: ikidillilik
• Ukrainian: двомо́вність (dvomóvnistʹ)
• Yiddish: צװײשפּראַכיקײט f (tsveyshprakhikeyt)