mutually intelligible
English
Adjective
mutually intelligible (not comparable)
- (linguistics) Of two or more speech varieties, able to be understood by one another's speakers.
- Synonyms: interintelligible, intercomprehensible
- Antonym: mutually unintelligible
- 1860, Alfred R. Wallace, Notes of a Voyage to New Guinea, in Journal of the Royal Geographical Society of London, Vol. 30
- This language, or mutually intelligible forms of it, is spoken by the coast-dwellers over an extensive area
- 1917, F. W. H. Migeod, The Racial Elements Concerned in the First Siege of Troy, in Man, Vol. 17
- Another important point is that Homer recognises that the speech of Trojans and Greeks was mutually intelligible.
Related terms
- mutual intelligibility
Translations
of a speech variety, able to be understood by speakers of another variety
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