[pmwiki-users] OT: Re: what do you call a person who speaks only one language?

[Neil Herber (nospam)]

On 2007-03-31 the Other michael is rumoured to have said:
>  (and mono-lingual, again?)

If you are going to use the Latin prefix for "bilingual", then the 
one-language speaker should be "unilingual". (These are the terms in 
general use in Canada.)

"Mono" is a Greek prefix so I suppose you could say monolingual or 
dilingual.

Strangely, trilingual sounds correct to me, but it is also a Greek 
prefix. The Latin trelingual or terlingual both sound wrong.

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Neil Herber
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