The Emergence Machine

Multilingualism

abstract · linguistics · Level 8 · E9

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Each concept here is mapped to its prerequisites — the ideas you'd need first to understand it — all the way down to four foundations: Space, Time, Energy, Pattern. Click any prerequisite to drill down, or scroll for the chain graph.

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Emergence definition

multilingualism emerges from language + quantity.

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Wiktionary senses

External reference — all senses of the word “multilingualism” on Wiktionary. This atlas concept maps to only the slice of meaning relevant to the prerequisite graph.

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Source: Wiktionary — “multilingualism”. Content available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Historical origin

Origin language
lat

Prerequisite chain

Possible path of this concept down to the fundamental substrate.

thisfoundationsL8L7L6L5L2L1L0MultilingualismLanguageCommunicationBehavior… intermediate l…FormInformationLifeStructureActionChangeMatterEnergyPatternSpaceTimeE1 concrete → E14 abstract

Neighborhood

Direct prerequisites above, concepts that depend on this one below.

used byprerequisitesBilingualismL9MultilingualismL8LanguageL7E1 concrete → E14 abstract

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Prerequisites

What you need to understand first.

  • Language L7 (definitional)
    Language is part of the definition of multilingualism.

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