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How to pronounce monolingual in English?

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monolingual speakers.
a monolingual dictionary.

Examples of monolingual

monolingual
Europe is becoming bilingual, except for Britons, who are becoming monolingual.
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Multilingual speakers outnumber monolingual speakers in the world's population.
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And babies who grow up bilingual can do this for longer than monolingual infants.
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Our system has participated both in the Spanish and English monolingual tasks.
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And as Spanish becomes more important, monolingual creoles are losing service jobs.
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Pular is an official regional language in Guinea, and many speakers are monolingual.
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Santiago is the Galician city with most monolingual population in Galician language.
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According to the wiki-category Languages of Rwanda, that was not monolingual either.
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All Finnish communities and towns are classified as either monolingual or bilingual.
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More examples
  • Using or knowing only one language; "monolingual speakers"; "a monolingual dictionary"
  • A person who knows only one language
  • (monolingually) in a monolingual manner; "she had been reared monolingually"
  • Monoglottism (Greek monos, "alone, solitary", + glotta, "tongue, language") or, more commonly, monolingualism or unilingualism is the condition of being able to speak only a single language. ...
  • Relating to one language. See also bilingual, multilingual.