Interlingual

adj

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Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Spanning multiple languages; having a multilingual flair or quality. not-comparable

    "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?"

Example

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"I notice that Japanese and Koreans like wordplays that are sometimes interlingual. They are like conlangs."

Etymology

From inter- + lingual.

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