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unilingual /juːnɪˈlɪŋɡw(ə)l /adjectiveConducted in, concerned with, or speaking only one language: the only officially unilingual province in Canada unilingual English language establishments with no bilingual programme unilingual speakers...- Rather it exists as a continuum, from long-established unilingual anglophones broadly similar to anglophones in Ontario through bilinguals of various kinds to francophones using English as a second language.
- It would also help unilingual francophones to function as unilinguals outside of Quebec, in so far as official bilingualism insures provision of government services in French.
- Thus, twenty-five out of thirty-six of the European countries are officially unilingual.
Derivativesunilingualism noun ...- A good example is Switzerland, where territorial unilingualism exists under federal multilingualism.
- He believes in total unilingualism in immigration, that immigrants shouldn't be allowed to work unless they speak French and that Quebec, once sovereign, should occupy Labrador.
- As a French Canadian, he knew the sting of unilingualism in Canada in the 1940s, 1950s and into the 1960s.
unilingually adverb ...- He is unilingually English, but his gifts of compromise and persuasion (according to him) will at least give his ideas some prominence.
- Quebec is officially French and all other provinces and territories in Canada are unilingually English.
- The municipality is unilingually Finnish.
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