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Languages with no monoglots
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nicozerpa Triglot Senior Member Argentina Joined 4137 days ago 182 posts - 315 votes Speaks: Spanish*, Portuguese, English Studies: Italian, German	Message 25 of 26 23 February 2013 at 2:58am \| IP Logged
	In Paraguay, South America, there are two official languages: Spanish and Guarani (an aborigin language). Most Paraguayans are able to speak fluently in both languages, so I suppose there are few people who speaks only Guarani. 1 person has voted this message useful
aokoye Diglot Senior Member United StatesRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5352 days ago 235 posts - 453 votes Speaks: English*, German Studies: Dutch, Norwegian, Japanese	Message 26 of 26 12 March 2013 at 7:39pm \| IP Logged
	Modern Standard Arabic is an example of a language with no monolingual speakers. This is because MSA is taught in schools, used in the media, by the government, etc but is not spoken colloquially. The term forthis is diglossia - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diglossia 3 persons have voted this message useful

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