Multilingualism - Wikipedia A bilingual "no trespassing" sign at a construction site in Helsinki, Finland (upper text in Finnish, lower text in Swedish) The definition of multilingualism is a subject of debate in the same way as that of language fluency At one end of the linguistic continuum, multilingualism may be defined as the mastery of more than one language The speaker would have knowledge of and control over the
Bilingualism · Open Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science Bilingualism—broadly defined as a speaker’s ability to use two (or more) languages (or dialects) in their everyday life—characterizes the language experience of a large and heterogeneous part of the world’s population