interlinguisticadj.
/ɪntəlɪŋˈɡwɪstɪk/ 1. Intermingling in speech.
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the mind > language > speech > conversation > [adjective] > intermingling in speech
interlinguistic1879
1879 G. Meredith Egoist I. xviii. 333 Not a colloquy but a chasing, impossible to say which flies, which follows, or what the topic, so interlinguistic are they and rapidly counterchanging.
2. Of or relating to an interlanguage; between or relating to two languages.
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the mind > language > a language > using or speaking languages > [adjective] > bilingual > between or relating to two languages
interlingual1854
interlinguistic1947
interlanguage1953
1947 H. Jacob Planned Auxiliary Lang. iii. xiv. 131 For the purposes of interlinguistic discussion they have been termed the naturalistic school and the autonomistic school.
1962 P. S. Ray in J. A. Fishman Readings Sociol. of Lang. (1968) 756 We might speak, instead of ‘closure’ and ‘opening’, of intra-linguistic and inter~linguistic uniformity.
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adj.1879