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Lingual

adjective

Consisting of or related to language. Synonym: linguistic. "A linguistic atlas" , "Lingual diversity"

Pertaining to or resembling or lying near the tongue. "The lingual surface of the teeth"

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"Lingual" Quotes from Famous Books

... family that is original and old-world even in its ways of dying. I have been a doctor in these parts for five-and-twenty years. I have seen what you may call old Westmoreland die out—costume, dialect, superstitions. At least, as to dialect, the people have become bi-lingual. I sometimes think they talk it to each other as much as ever, but some of them won't talk it to you and me at all. And as to superstitions, the only ghost story I know that still has some hold on popular belief is the one which attaches ...

— Robert Elsmere • Mrs. Humphry Ward

... Frenchman or German to become bi-lingual are great enough nowadays, but the inducements to a speaker of the smaller languages are rapidly approaching compulsion. He must do it in self-defence. To be an educated man in his own vernacular has become an impossibility, he must either become a mental subject of one of the ...

— Anticipations - Of the Reaction of Mechanical and Scientific Progress upon - Human life and Thought • Herbert George Wells

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