How do you use Monolingual in a sentence? See 10+ example sentences showing how this word appears in different contexts, including synonyms like multilingual or person, plus the exact meaning.
Monolingual meaning
Knowing or using a single language; written or spoken in a single language.
Synonyms of Monolingual
Using Monolingual
- The main meaning on this page is: Knowing or using a single language; written or spoken in a single language.
- Useful related words include: multilingual, person, individual, someone.
- In the example corpus, monolingual often appears in combinations such as: monolingual english, monolingual spanish, are monolingual.
Context around Monolingual
- Average sentence length in these examples: 24.9 words
- Position in the sentence: 4 start, 8 middle, 7 end
- Sentence types: 19 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Monolingual
- In this selection, "monolingual" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 24.9 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, overzealous, mostly, purpose, english, spanish and perspective stand out and add context to how "monolingual" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include as a monolingual spanish speaker and autonomy and monolingual public schooling. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "monolingual" sits close to words such as aaditya, aardman and abbo, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with monolingual
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
But the owner of the club, Linda Allen, is a monolingual English speaker. (13 words)
Finally, of the remaining languages, they eliminated those for which monolingual data wasn’t available. (15 words)
Languages main Although the country is mostly monolingual Spanish, many languages are spoken in Venezuela. (15 words)
Barrow also promoted the use of English in churches; he considered that it was a superior language for reading the Bible; however, because the majority of ministers were monolingual Manx speakers, his views had little practical impact. (37 words)
However, the situation is more delicate in the Northern Basque Country within France, where Basque is not officially recognized, and where lack of autonomy and monolingual public schooling in French exert great pressure on the Basque language. (37 words)
Lexico-statistical studies indicate that these two languages probably became differentiated from one another around 1200 Most children are bilingual in the language and Spanish although many of their grandparents are monolingual Tzeltal speakers. (34 words)
Example sentences (19)
But the owner of the club, Linda Allen, is a monolingual English speaker.
When coming from a monolingual perspective (particularly an anglocentric one), it’s easy to project your experiences with the one language you speak onto other languages.
But the families my colleagues are worried about are the very same ones getting edged out of dual-language schools by overzealous monolingual parents.
These events did occur, but whether they happened to our man of mystery or another monolingual American will probably never be confirmed.
Finally, of the remaining languages, they eliminated those for which monolingual data wasn’t available.
As a monolingual Spanish speaker, she couldn’t defend herself until her court date, when an interpreter and community supporters helped her to fight the charge.
DLD, estimated to affect five to seven percent of both monolingual and bilingual children, causes dramatic delays in language acquisition not related to other impairments.
Barrow also promoted the use of English in churches; he considered that it was a superior language for reading the Bible; however, because the majority of ministers were monolingual Manx speakers, his views had little practical impact.
However, the situation is more delicate in the Northern Basque Country within France, where Basque is not officially recognized, and where lack of autonomy and monolingual public schooling in French exert great pressure on the Basque language.
In 1502 Ambrogio Calepino 's Dictionarium was published, originally a monolingual Latin dictionary, which over the course of the 16th century was enlarged to become a multilingual glossary.
Languages main Although the country is mostly monolingual Spanish, many languages are spoken in Venezuela.
Lexico-statistical studies indicate that these two languages probably became differentiated from one another around 1200 Most children are bilingual in the language and Spanish although many of their grandparents are monolingual Tzeltal speakers.
Monolingual dictionaries of languages with generally phonemic orthographies generally do not bother with indicating the pronunciation of most words, and tend to use respelling systems for words with unexpected pronunciations.
Natives to the island speak the variety of Catalan called Menorquí, and they typically speak Spanish fluently as a second language ; many immigrants are monolingual in Spanish.
Other dictionaries, such as Nathan Bailey 's Dictionarium Britannicum, included more words, and in the 150 years preceding Johnson's dictionary about twenty other general-purpose monolingual "English" dictionaries had been produced.
Overview A corpus may contain texts in a single language (monolingual corpus) or text data in multiple languages (multilingual corpus).
The word dictionary (unqualified) is usually understood to refer to a monolingual dictionary of general-purpose.
Though it contained only 2,449 words, and no word beginning with the letters W, X, or Y, this was the first monolingual English dictionary.
Whereas monolingual Romansh were still common at the beginning of the twentieth century, they are now only found among pre-school children.
Common combinations with monolingual
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts: