Talk:Multilingualism

Structural problems in the article?

I've just stumbled upon this article and the way the sections are structured have confused me quite a bit. The most glaring one is a long list of languages and countries that speak them under the heading of Europe. At first I thought this was a list of either the European countries with shared languages (of which there are many) or a list of languages historically from Europe which are spoken widely in many countries (of which there are also a few). However, neither seems to be the case. To cite just one example which confused me, "Chinese in China, Taiwan, Singapore, and to a co-official extent in Malaysia and Brunei." I don't understand why this is included in this list. If there's a good reason, so be it. If not, or if otherwise there are no objections, I can take a crack at restructuring some of this. Rserramilli (talk) 14:06, 9 November 2024 (UTC)

I don't see the problem with this section. For the languages that I know are spoken in different countries, they all seem correct. The only problem is that they are not limited to Europe. Lova Falk (talk) 08:47, 11 April 2025 (UTC)

I'd agree that there is a structure problem here. I don't have a complete proposal to a solution to it yet, but this page and the Polyglot (computing) page feel a bit disordered.

I recently added a section to refer to artificial languages (happy to talk about that separately), but I still feel that programming languages are underrepresented here, and the distinction between localization and fluency in various programming languages should be clarified.

Ideally there should be some hierarchy and synergy within these articles which correlates to language taxonomy. Kyle-Falconer (talk) 16:39, 29 November 2025 (UTC)

bidirectional bilingual instruction

The text reads "bidirectional bilingual instruction". Could anyone clarify what this means? Thanks! 130.239.190.10 (talk) 15:42, 6 April 2025 (UTC)

 Done I exchanged the term bidirectional for the more commonly used two-way, and wrote: a form of dual language education that brings together students from two different language backgrounds to learn in both languages. Lova Falk (talk) 08:30, 11 April 2025 (UTC)

Verifiability of this page

There are multiple paragraphs on this page which have no citations and are not verifiable, is whoever wrote them still around to add their citations? Eletameo (talk) 14:38, 12 June 2026 (UTC)

2026 study

"A Shared Neural Mechanism for Abstract Grammatical Computations Across Languages in Bilinguals" (doi:10.1523/JNEUROSCI.2341-25.2026) This looks like it could be a needed citation, but I'm not sure how to apply it. Mapsax (talk) 01:39, 24 June 2026 (UTC)