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Monolingualism

Monolingualism meaning

The condition of being monolingual; the ability to speak only a single language.

Example sentences (3)

But with the ideology that made one people, one state, and one language the most desirable political arrangement, monolingualism started to spread throughout the world.

Four of Chiapas' indigenous languages Tzeltal, Tzotzil, Tojolabal and Chol are high-vitality languages, meaning that a high percentage of these ethnicities speak the language and that there is a high rate of monolingualism in it.

Pütz, Martin (1995) "Official Monolingualism in Africa: A sociolinguistic assessment of linguistic and cultural pluralism in Africa", p. 155 in Discrimination through language in Africa?