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Judit Kormos
Hungarian linguist
Marjolijn Verspoor
Dutch linguist

Ken Hyland
British linguist
Lourdes Ortega
professor of applied linguistics
translingualism
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