tweetalig, adjective

/twɪəˈtɑːləx(ə)/
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Also (attributive) tweetalige /twɪəˈtɑːləxə/
Origin:
AfrikaansShow more Afrikaans, twee two + taal language + adjectival suffix -ig (attributive form -ige).
bilingual.
1973 Cape Times 21 June 7This wall chart, attractive..and tweetalig nogal, is to be distributed to all hospitals.
1980 Fair Lady 19 Nov. 384It sounds ridiculous..but it worked, we worked and we all came out more tweetalig than we went in.
1986 Sunday Times 12 Oct. 12The SABC’s new bilingual TV programmes are a smash hit — with an overwhelming 84 percent of TV1’s white viewership giving a tweetalige thumbs-up.
1990 Weekly Mail 21 Dec. (Suppl.) 31Tweetalig is tops...The most exciting new indigenous theatre..plays written in Afrikaans and English.
1992 J. Raphaely in Femina June 6I can visualize myself giving a brilliant tweetalige speech.
1993 Weekly Mail & Guardian 10 Dec. 6Soon your Coke and Fanta and even your beers will no longer be tweetalig. This week, South African Breweries and Amalgamated Beverage Industries..decided to can Afrikaans on their products.
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Tweede Nuwejaar, noun phrasen. phr.twenty-six, nounn.
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