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Monolingual (adj) means Using, knowing, or expressed in only one language.

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Using, knowing, or expressed in only one language.

"Thus approximately 98% of signs contained English, and 93.5% of signs were wholly in English. As far as linguistic landscapes go, this is a case of extreme monolingual dominance in a multilingual setting." — Li Huang, Another Arrow for the Quiver: A New Methodology for Multilingual Researchers (2019)

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