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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 a multilingual flair or quality.

Etymologies

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inter- + lingual

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Examples

  • 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

  • I agree with Language Log that this kind of interlingual presentation is valuable.

    languagehat.com: NATSUGUSA. 2004

  • 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.

    Ejective or Pharyngealized Stops in Proto-Semitic? 2008

  • Similarly, English man 'male' and Persian /man/ 'I' are interlingual homophones.

    On false friends DC 2008

  • Especially, note one interlingual example where non-equivalence is declared elegantly and symmetrically:

    Archive 2007-03-01 2007

  • And interlingual communication among speakers of different languages in Esperanto is _very_ different from interlingual communication in english ime, ymmv.

    languagehat.com: LINGUISTIC MUTATION. 2004

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • "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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