Difference between linguist and polyglot
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The confusion between the two terms annoys linguists, but it’s not too hard to see why the confusion exists.
A polyglot is someone who speaks a lot of languages fluently. There is no official number of languages you have to know to be a polyglot, but it’s usually at least four or five languages or more. The current record is around 50.
A linguist, on the other hand, is someone who studies languages. There are different fields of linguistics, such as phonetics, phonology, morphology, typology, semantics, pragmatics, and syntax. The point of linguistics is to study human languages, not learn as many languages as humanly possible.
So if you ever meet a linguist, don’t immediately ask them how many languages they speak.
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- a linguist is a person who has studied or is interested in the science of language.
- a polyglot is a person who can speak ,read or write in several languages.
modern dictionaries often describe linguist as someone who can speak many languages,but for people in the field of linguistics there is a distinct difference....
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