Editing Multilingualism (section)

==History==
The first recorded use of the word ''multilingual'' in the English language occurred in the 1830s. The word is a combination of ''multi-'' ("many") and -''lingual'' ("pertaining to languages").<ref>{{Cite web |author-link=Oxford English Dictionary |date=2023 |title=multilingual, adj. & n. |url=https://www.oed.com/dictionary/multilingual_adj?tab=factsheet#35428304 |url-access=limited |access-date=December 30, 2023 |website=Oxford English Dictionary |language=en}}</ref> The phenomenon of multilingualism is as old as the very existence of different languages.<ref>{{Cite web |last=King |first=Lid |date=2018 |title=The Impact of Multilingualism on Global Education and Language Learning |url=https://www.cambridgeenglish.org/Images/539682-perspectives-impact-on-multilingualism.pdf |access-date=December 30, 2023 |at=4 |language=en |quote="The world has always been multilingual"}}</ref>

Today, evidence of multilingualism in an area includes things such as [[bilingual sign]]s, which represent the same message in more than one language. Historical examples include [[Gloss (annotation)|glosses]] in textual sources, which can provide notes in a different language from the source text; [[Macaronic language|macaronic texts]] which mix together two or more languages with the expectation that the reader will understand both; the existence of separate sacred and vernacular languages (such as [[Ecclesiastical Latin|Church Latin]] vs. [[Vulgar Latin|common forms of Latin]], and [[Hebrew language|Hebrew]] vs. [[Aramaic]] and [[Jewish languages]]); and the frequency of linguistic borrowings and other results of [[language contact]].<ref>{{Cite book |url=https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/book/10.1002/9781405198431 |title=The Encyclopedia of Applied Linguistics |chapter=History of Multilingualism |date=2013-01-30 |publisher=Wiley |isbn=978-1-4051-9473-0 |editor-last=Chapelle |editor-first=Carol A. |edition=1 |publication-date=2013 |pages=2526–2531 |language=en |doi=10.1002/9781405198431.wbeal0511}}</ref>