mutually intelligibleとは 意味・読み方・使い方

形容詞

mutually intelligible (not comparable)

1. (linguistics) Of two or more speech varieties, able to be understood by one another's speakers.

   Synonyms: interintelligible, intercomprehensible

   Antonym: mutually unintelligible

   • 1860, Alfred R. Wallace, Notes of a Voyage to New Guinea, in Journal of the Royal Geographical Society of London, Vol. 30

     This language, or mutually intelligible forms of it, is spoken by the coast-dwellers over an extensive area

   • 1917, F. W. H. Migeod, The Racial Elements Concerned in the First Siege of Troy, in Man, Vol. 17

     Another important point is that Homer recognises that the speech of Trojans and Greeks was mutually intelligible.

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