Talk:Multilingualism

Abstract
The preface contains the sentence "More than half of all Europeans claim to speak at least one language other than their mother tongue; but many read and write in one language.", which seems neither here nor there and kind of nonsensical to begin with. Maybe someone feels like rephrasing that. 2001:A61:2556:5001:F151:C67B:3FE8:DE1D (talk) 17:59, 2 September 2022 (UTC)

Wiki Education assignment: Multilingualism and Language contact
— Assignment last updated by Zesp2026 (talk) 00:29, 6 December 2022 (UTC)

Definition of multilingualism seems (too) narrow
The current article text contains:

”Multilingual people can speak any language they write in, but cannot necessarily write in any language they speak.”

Why would people who, by whatever cause or for whatever reason, do not speak one or some of the languages they master through other means, be they writing, signing or reading, excluded from being called multilingual?

I propose to change the text to e.g.:

”Multilingual people can communicate any language they master, but may not be able to communicate in it through all of its modes. Possible modes include speaking, writing, typing, morse-coding, signing, listening, reading, morse-decoding.”

Other modes may exist; I remember having read about a whistling language practised in Türkiye.Redav (talk) 14:09, 28 December 2022 (UTC)

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