panlingual

English

Etymology

From pan- +‎ lingual.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ɪŋɡwəl

Adjective

panlingual (not comparable)

1. Involving or encompassing all languages.

   Coordinate term: translingual

   • 1998, Jonathan Gil Harris, Foreign bodies and the body politic, page 112:

     On the other hand, however, Lingua's scholarly audience could have responded to this ostentatious parade of panlingual skill as a confirmation of their own erudition.

   • 2005, Marc Shell, Stutter, page 51:

     […] it is not interlingual translation that betrays the stutterer; it is, rather, panlingual stuttering.

   • 2007, Stephen Henigan, A Grave in the Air, page 32:

     We spoke in a private panlingual gibberish. We were not German or European or English or Canadian; we were flesh detached from time and place.

Related terms

• omnilingual
• panlinguistic