Multilingualism

Esperanto () is the world's most widely spoken constructed auxiliary language. Created by L. L. Zamenhof in 1887 as "the International Language" (), it is intended to be a universal second language for international communication. He described the language in ''Dr. Esperanto's International Language'' (known as , the "first book"), which he published under the pseudonym . Early adopters of the language liked the name and soon used it to describe his language. The word translates into English as "one who hopes".

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language meant for communication between people from different nations who do not share a common first language

concerning the human / civil right to choose the language(s) for communication in a private or public space

education conducted in two languages

languages of a geographic region

languages of a geographic region

CLIL is a language instruction approach to teach languages embedded in other subjects

Council of Europe institution

BabelNet is a multilingual lexical-semantic knowledge graph, ontology and encyclopedic dictionary developed at the NLP group of the Sapienza University of Rome under the supervision of Roberto Navigli. BabelNet was automatically created by linking Wikipedia to the most popular computational lexicon of the English language, WordNet. The integration is done using an automatic mapping and by filling in lexical gaps in resource-poor languages by using statistical machine translation. The result is an encyclopedic dictionary that provides concepts and named entities lexicalized in many languages an

French as the sole official language

Canadian polyglot

languages of a geographic region

language on public signs

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logogram consisting of the embedded written representation of a word in a foreign language, which does not have a spoken counterpart in the main language of the text; e.g. the symbol &, derived from the Latin "et", is read as the English word "and"

someone who can fully understand a language but not productively speak it

medium in which subject literature is presented to the reader, distinct from scientific language as a writing style

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thumb|404x404px|Example of translingualism Translingual phenomena are words and other aspects of language that are relevant in more than one language. Thus "translingual" may mean "existing in multiple languages" or "having the same meaning in many languages"; and sometimes "containing words of multiple languages" or "operating between different languages". Translingualism is the phenomenon of translingually relevant aspects of language; a translingualism is an instance thereof. The word comes from trans-, meaning "across", and lingual, meaning "having to do with languages (tongues)"; thus, it

multilingual teaching

Panamane [panaˈman] is a constructed language created by the Panamanian Manuel E. Amador in 1922 and compiled in a book titled Fundaments of Panamane: Universal Language in 1936.