From multilingual + -ism.
multilingualism (usually uncountable, plural multilingualisms)
- The condition of being multilingual; the ability to speak multiple languages.
2020 October 27, Emily Bouza, Tim Cavnar, and Keli Tucker, “Translingualism: An Alternative to Restrictive Monolingual Ideologies in Writing Instruction”, in Another Word[1]:This is, perhaps, where writing centers and composition studies are implicated most obviously into the conversation of language ideology, translingualism, and multilingualism.
ability to speak several languages
- Arabic: متعدد اللغات
- Armenian: բազմալեզվություն (hy) (bazmalezvutʻyun)
- Azerbaijani: çoxdillilik
- Basque: eleaniztasuna
- Breton: liesyezhegezh (br)
- Catalan: plurilingüisme (ca) m, multilingüisme (ca)
- Czech: vícejazyčnost
- Dutch: meertaligheid (nl) f
- Esperanto: plurlingvismo
- Finnish: monikielisyys (fi)
- French: multilinguisme (fr) m, plurilinguisme (fr) m
- Galician: plurilingüismo m, multilingüismo m
- German: Mehrsprachigkeit (de) f, Vielsprachigkeit (de) f, Multilingualismus (de) m, Multilinguismus m, Multilingualität f
- Hebrew: רב־לשוניות f (rav-leshoniyút)
- Hindi: बहुभाषिकता f (bahubhāṣiktā), बहुभाषिता f (bahubhāṣitā)
- Hungarian: többnyelvűség (hu)
- Italian: plurilinguismo m, multilinguismo m
- Kazakh: көптілділік (köptıldılık)
- Latin: multilingualismus m
- Lithuanian: daugiakalbystė
- Macedonian: повеќеја́зичност f (poveḱejázičnost)
- Norman: multilîndgisme m
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: flerspråklighet (no) m or f
- Nynorsk: fleirspråklegheit f
- Occitan: multilingüisme
- Polish: wielojęzyczność (pl)
- Portuguese: plurilinguismo m, multilinguismo m
- Romanian: multilingvism (ro)
- Russian: многоязы́чие (ru) n (mnogojazýčije), многоязы́чность (ru) f (mnogojazýčnostʹ), мультилингви́зм (ru) m (mulʹtilingvízm)
- Spanish: plurilingüismo (es), multilingüismo m
- Swedish: flerspråkighet (sv) c
- Turkish: çokdillilik (tr)
- Ukrainian: багатомо́вність (uk) f (bahatomóvnistʹ)
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