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Multilingualism
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Multilingualismistheuseoftwoormorelanguages,eitherby
anindividualspeakerorbyacommunityofspeakers.
Multilingualspeakersoutnumbermonolingualspeakersinthe
world'spopulation.[1]Multilingualismisbecomingasocial
phenomenongovernedbytheneedsofglobalizationandcultural
openness.[2]Owingtotheeaseofaccesstoinformation
facilitatedbytheInternet,individuals'exposuretomultiple
languagesisbecomingincreasinglyfrequent,therebypromoting
aneedtoacquireadditionallanguages.Peoplewhospeakseveral
languagesarealsocalledpolyglots.[3]

Contents
1 Definition
2 Multilingualindividuals
2.1 Cognitiveability
2.2 Economicbenefits
2.3 Receptivebilingualism
2.4 Personality
3 Multilingualismwithinfamilies
4 Learninglanguage
5 Neuroscience
6 Psychology
7 Multilingualismwithincommunities
8 Multilingualismbetweendifferentlanguagespeakers
9 Multilingualismatthelinguisticlevel
9.1 Modelsfornativelanguageliteracyprograms
9.2 Sequentialmodel
9.3 Bilingualmodel
9.4 Coordinatemodel
9.5 Outcomes
10 Multilingualismincomputing
10.1 Internet
11 Multilingualismintheworkplace
11.1 MultilingualisminEnglishspeaking
countries
11.2 MultilingualisminAsia,America,andAfrica
11.3 MultilingualisminEurope
12 Multilingualisminmusic
13 Seealso
13.1 Policiesandproposals
13.2 Education
13.3 Other
14 References
15 Furtherreading
16 Externallinks
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multilingualism

Multilingualsignoutsidethemayor's
officeinNoviSad,writteninthe
fourofficiallanguagesofthecity:
Serbian,Hungarian,Slovak,and
PannonianRusyn

ThelogooftheSwissFederal
administration,inthefournational
languagesofSwitzerland(German,
French,ItalianandRomansh)

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