Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Of, relating to, or involving two or more languages.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Relating to two or more languages: as, interlingual alphabet; interlingual geographical data.
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- adjective linguistics, translation studies Spanning across multiple
languages ; having amultilingual flair or quality.
Etymologies
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Examples
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It's important to include the word 'interlingual', as the two words may not be exactly the same, as they would within a single language.
On false friends DC 2008
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I agree with Language Log that this kind of interlingual presentation is valuable.
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Please understand that I do believe that there's a general pattern to look for in these interlingual loans but it also must be understood that things can't be expected to be regular all of the time.
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Similarly, English man 'male' and Persian /man/ 'I' are interlingual homophones.
On false friends DC 2008
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Especially, note one interlingual example where non-equivalence is declared elegantly and symmetrically:
Archive 2007-03-01 2007
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And interlingual communication among speakers of different languages in Esperanto is _very_ different from interlingual communication in english ime, ymmv.
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Differences of speech were no bar, for the tom tom code was interlingual.
American Negro Slavery A Survey of the Supply, Employment and Control of Negro Labor as Determined by the Plantation Regime Ulrich Bonnell Phillips 1905
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Years ago, while trying to exorcise the demons of fundamentalist Christianity from my blood, I began studying my interlingual Hebrew-English OT and Greek-English NT and was very surprised to find that parsing out the simplest of verses was a nightmarishly difficult task.
Discover Blogs 2010
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This most proves my point: while I knew previously that Gilligan's Island was based on a pretty common rhythm for English, there are even some interlingual rhythms, which I learned when learning the party trick of singing medieval Spanish poetry (versos alejandrinos) to the tune of Jingle Bells.
CHE > Latest news 2010
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"Assayas seems obsessed by the workaday world of Hong Kong with its mass insouciance as a crossroads of international, interlingual and interracial commerce and industry, which leaves it little time to pause and notice a desperate European woman running for her life," writes
GreenCine Daily 2009
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