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interlingual
interlingual
English
Adjective
interlingual (not comparable)
- (linguistics, translation studies) Spanning multiple languages; having a multilingual flair or quality.
- 2004, Wolfram Wilss, Translation in Undergraduate Degree Programmes, edited by Kirsten Malmkjær, John Benjamins Publishing Co, p. 9:
- Why is translation suitable as a subject-matter of academic study, or to raise this question in a somewhat different and perhaps more challenging form: What distinguishes everyday, intralingual communication from interlingual, "exceptional" communication?
- 2004, Wolfram Wilss, Translation in Undergraduate Degree Programmes, edited by Kirsten Malmkjær, John Benjamins Publishing Co, p. 9:
Derived terms
- interlingualism