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A polyglot is:

AAn illiterate

BOne who handles several languages

COne who knows only a language

DA lexical disability situation

Answer:

B. One who handles several languages

Read Explanation:

📌 A polyglot is someone who can speak, read, or write in many languages (usually more than two or three).
📌 The term comes from Greek: poly = many, glot = tongue/language.


📝 Example:

  • A person fluent in English, French, German, and Spanish is a polyglot.


💡 Related terms:

  • Monolingual → speaks one language

  • Bilingual → speaks two languages

  • Multilingual → speaks several languages (similar to polyglot)


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