"co-linguist" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "co- + linguist",
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      "form": "co-linguists",
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        "plural"
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  "pos": "noun",
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1982, D. Devahuti, Historical and political perspectives, page 237",
          "text": "Muslim Bengal asserted its Muslim personality in 1947 against its co-linguist Hindu neighbours. Twenty-four years later, it asserted its regional personality also, through a revolt against its co-religionist West Pakistanis.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1999, Malcolm Milne, No Telephone to Heaven, page 157",
          "text": "The former is capable — when speaking to a co-linguist — of conveying almost a photographic image of an area of bush so extensive is his knowledge of the names of vegetation and descriptions of terrain.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2003, Charles C. Euchner, editor, Governing Greater Boston: Meeting the Needs of the Region's People, page 85",
          "text": "The city of Boston also employs some co-ethnic and co-linguist liaison officers in the city's Office of Neighborhood Services, including people who can speak Chinese, Vietnamese, Spanish and Cape Verdean Creole.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2007, Barry M. Rubin, Political Islam: Case studies: Africa, Iran, Europe, Asia, page 123",
          "text": "However, in the context of both Afghanistan and the civil war, the fact that most identifiable Afghan groups have co-linguists, co-ethnics, or co-religionists across national boundaries became a catalyst for the nation's collapse",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2013, Claudine Brohy, Joseph T-Guri, Theodorus du Plessis, Law, Language and the Multilingual State",
          "text": "If citizens cannot understand one another, or if they seek to deliberate with co-linguists only, then democratic politics is likely to be compromised.",
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        "One who shares a language with someone."
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        {
          "word": "colinguist"
        }
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  "word": "co-linguist"
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  "etymology_text": "co- + linguist",
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      "form": "co-linguists",
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        {
          "ref": "1982, D. Devahuti, Historical and political perspectives, page 237",
          "text": "Muslim Bengal asserted its Muslim personality in 1947 against its co-linguist Hindu neighbours. Twenty-four years later, it asserted its regional personality also, through a revolt against its co-religionist West Pakistanis.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1999, Malcolm Milne, No Telephone to Heaven, page 157",
          "text": "The former is capable — when speaking to a co-linguist — of conveying almost a photographic image of an area of bush so extensive is his knowledge of the names of vegetation and descriptions of terrain.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2003, Charles C. Euchner, editor, Governing Greater Boston: Meeting the Needs of the Region's People, page 85",
          "text": "The city of Boston also employs some co-ethnic and co-linguist liaison officers in the city's Office of Neighborhood Services, including people who can speak Chinese, Vietnamese, Spanish and Cape Verdean Creole.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
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          "ref": "2007, Barry M. Rubin, Political Islam: Case studies: Africa, Iran, Europe, Asia, page 123",
          "text": "However, in the context of both Afghanistan and the civil war, the fact that most identifiable Afghan groups have co-linguists, co-ethnics, or co-religionists across national boundaries became a catalyst for the nation's collapse",
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        },
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  "word": "co-linguist"
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