monolingual

English

Etymology

From mono- +‎ lingual.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ɪŋɡwəl

Adjective

monolingual (comparative more monolingual, superlative most monolingual)

1. Knowing or using a single language; written or spoken in a single language.
   • 2019, Li Huang; James Lambert, “Another Arrow for the Quiver: A New Methodology for Multilingual Researchers”, in Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, DOI:10.1080/01434632.2019.1596115, page 5:

     Thus approximately 98% of signs contained English, and 93.5% of signs were wholly in English. As far as linguistic landscapes go, this is a case of extreme monolingual dominance in a multilingual setting.

   Synonym: unilingual

   Antonyms: multilingual, plurilingual

Translations

only knowing or spoken in one language

• Albanian: njëgjuhësh
• Arabic: أُحَادِي اَللُّغَة‎ (ʾuḥādī l-luḡa)
• Azerbaijani: təkdilli
• Basque: elebakar (eu)
• Catalan: monolingüe, unilingüe
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 單語, 单语 (dānyǔ)

• Czech: jednojazyčný
• Danish: ensproget
• Dutch: eentalig (nl)
• Estonian: ühekeelne
• Finnish: yksikielinen (fi)
• French: monolingue (fr), unilingue (fr) m or f
• Galician: monolingüe, unilingüe
• Georgian: ერთენოვანი (ertenovani), მონოლინგვური (monolingvuri)
• German: einsprachig (de), monolingual (de)
• Greek: μονόγλωσσος (el) (monóglossos)

• Icelandic: eintyngdur, einmálga
• Interlingua: monolingue
• Irish: aonteangach
• Japanese: 単一言語 (たんいつげんご, tanitsugengo)
• Macedonian: едноја́зичен m (ednojázičen)
• Malay: ekabahasa
• Manx: un-çhengagh
• Maori: reo tōtahi
• Norwegian: ettspråklig
• Persian: تک‌زبانه‎, یک‌زبانه‎
• Polish: jednojęzyczny (pl)
• Portuguese: monolíngue
• Russian: одноязы́чный (ru) (odnojazýčnyj), (sometimes, seldom) моноязычный (ru) (monojazyčnyj),
• Spanish: monolingüe (es)
• Swedish: enspråkig (sv)
• Tagalog: sanwika

Noun

monolingual (plural monolinguals)

1. a person who knows or uses only a single language; a monoglot

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Pronunciation

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Adjective

monolingual (not comparable)

1. monolingual, unilingual

Declension

Declension of monolingual

number & gender		singular			plural
		masculine	feminine	neuter	all genders
predicative		er ist monolingual	sie ist monolingual	es ist monolingual	sie sind monolingual
strong declension (without article)	nominative	monolingualer	monolinguale	monolinguales	monolinguale
	genitive	monolingualen	monolingualer	monolingualen	monolingualer
	dative	monolingualem	monolingualer	monolingualem	monolingualen
	accusative	monolingualen	monolinguale	monolinguales	monolinguale
weak declension (with definite article)	nominative	der monolinguale	die monolinguale	das monolinguale	die monolingualen
	genitive	des monolingualen	der monolingualen	des monolingualen	der monolingualen
	dative	dem monolingualen	der monolingualen	dem monolingualen	den monolingualen
	accusative	den monolingualen	die monolinguale	das monolinguale	die monolingualen
mixed declension (with indefinite article)	nominative	ein monolingualer	eine monolinguale	ein monolinguales	(keine) monolingualen
	genitive	eines monolingualen	einer monolingualen	eines monolingualen	(keiner) monolingualen
	dative	einem monolingualen	einer monolingualen	einem monolingualen	(keinen) monolingualen
	accusative	einen monolingualen	eine monolinguale	ein monolinguales	(keine) monolingualen

Synonyms

• einsprachig

Antonyms

• mehrsprachig
• vielsprachig

Derived terms

• Monolingualismus

Further reading

• “monolingual” in Duden online