Definitions
Wiktionary
- n. One who masters or becomes fluent in many different languages
Etymologies
- From hyper- + polyglot. (Wiktionary)
Examples
“The hyperpolyglot also keeps a set of languages "on ice" -- ones that are not kept active or immediately available but which need to be "warmed up" for use.”
“NK: What's the difference between a multilingual and a hyperpolyglot?”
“NK: How fluent does one have to be in each language to be considered a hyperpolyglot?”
“NK: Is every healthy human born with the possibility of becoming a hyperpolyglot?”
“ME: I started my investigations with the definition that a hyperpolyglot is someone who speaks six or more languages, based on work by Dick Hudson, a University College London linguist, but that ought to be revised upward, to 11 languages or more.”
“Also, a hyperpolyglot doesn't have much of a role to play in the future of any given language, whereas a multilingual does.”
“Additionally, for the multilingual, learning another language is a way to participate in their community, but for a hyperpolyglot, it always brings them away from their community -- their local community, anyway.”
“The question is, do hyperpolyglot brains have some functional or structural difference that precedes intensive language learning?”
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Funkalicious Vocab
Words I like. No particular reason why.
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Tweets
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valse Hmm, I know of Daniel Tammet and the pope. Over 50...that's downright unfathomable. Sep 2, 2007
jennarenn Ca va bien, merci.
Aug 29, 2007
oroboros So, como se va? Aug 28, 2007
jennarenn Me too! In middle school, a time of many wildly impossible ideas, I decided that I was going to learn sixteen languages. I am sorry to report that I am still working on language number two! Aug 28, 2007
reesetee True, yet I'm still jealous. Aug 28, 2007
uselessness While learning all those languages is certainly no easy task, I'd think keeping them all straight afterward would be a pretty impossible feat in itself. He could know fifty words for hello but probably forget which one is correct for the language he's speaking at the moment. At least, I would. Aug 28, 2007
reesetee I'm jealous. Aug 28, 2007
ecrivaine33 I learned this one just this week when the Google blog had an article about a guy who was one and speaks over 50-something languages - wow.
A hyperpolyglot is one who can speak six or more languages fluently. The term was coined by the linguist Richard Hudson in 2003 and derives from the word "polyglot", meaning one who can speak multiple languages.
Hyperpolyglot on Wikipedia
Aug 28, 2007