the.com/monolingual
speaks one language and thinks that's just how humans work.
means knowing and using only a single language, as opposed to two or more.
from from latin mono (one) plus lingua (tongue) — coined in the 19th century once linguists needed a word for the default state most english speakers assumed was universal.
global minorityroughly half the world is bilingual or more, not monolingual
brain costmonolingual brains show less gray-matter density from bilingual switching
census realitymost countries list more languages spoken than officially recognized