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multilingualism
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multilingualism: see bilingualism bilingualism, ability to use two languages. Fluency in a second language requires skills in listening comprehension, speaking, reading, and writing, although in practice some of those skills are often considerably less developed than others.
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3) Such plural-speech communities tend to organize their repertoires through diglossic patterning, grass-roots folk multilingualism--distinct from elegant bilingualism or trilingualism learned through conscious effort--and other such processes of language contact.
Populations were intermixed, and there was a good deal of intermarriage, and bilingualism and trilingualism (28).
We have learned much about the trilingualism of the people of that time and place.
 
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