mutually intelligible

English

Adjective

mutually intelligible (not comparable)

1. (linguistics) Of two or more speech varieties, able to be understood by one another's speakers.

   Synonyms: interintelligible, intercomprehensible

   Antonym: mutually unintelligible

   • 1860, Alfred R. Wallace, Notes of a Voyage to New Guinea, in Journal of the Royal Geographical Society of London, Vol. 30

     This language, or mutually intelligible forms of it, is spoken by the coast-dwellers over an extensive area

   • 1917, F. W. H. Migeod, The Racial Elements Concerned in the First Siege of Troy, in Man, Vol. 17

     Another important point is that Homer recognises that the speech of Trojans and Greeks was mutually intelligible.

Related terms

• mutual intelligibility

Translations

of a speech variety, able to be understood by speakers of another variety

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 互通 (zh) (hùtōng)

• Czech: vzájemně srozumitelný
• Finnish: keskinäisesti ymmärrettävä
• French: intercompréhensible
• German: gegenseitig verständlich
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• Polish: wzajemnie zrozumiały
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• Russian: взаимопоня́тный (vzaimoponjátnyj)
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• Spanish: mutuamente inteligible
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