mehr +‎ Sprache +‎ -ig

• IPA^(key): /ˈmeːɐ̯ˌʃpʁaːxɪç/ (standard)
• IPA^(key): /-xɪk/ (common form in southern Germany, Austria, and Switzerland)

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• Hyphenation: mehr‧spra‧chig

mehrsprachig (strong nominative masculine singular mehrsprachiger, not comparable)

1. multilingual

   Synonym: (roughly) vielsprachig

   Antonym: einsprachig

   1. (of a book, etc.) containing text in more than one language
   2. (of a person) able to communicate in more than one language

• Since a solid majority of people in German-speaking countries is multilingual in the above sense, the word is now sometimes used in the stricter sense of “having grown up speaking more than one language, having more than one native language”.

• zweisprachig
• dreisprachig
• viersprachig
• fünfsprachig
• sechssprachig

• “mehrsprachig” in Duden online
• “mehrsprachig” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache