"semilingual" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "From semi- + lingual.",
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        {
          "ref": "2014, Mia Halonen, Pasi Ihalainen, Language Policies in Finland and Sweden: Interdisciplinary and Multi-sited Comparisons:",
          "text": "The harmful effects of semilingualism on the identity and psyche, together with an incomplete mastery of Swedish, made the semilingual person socially handicapped in comparison with the monolingual Swede.",
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        "Having a low profile in all of several languages that one can speak."
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  "word": "semilingual"
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  "etymology_text": "From semi- + lingual.",
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        "A person who knows two or more languages but exhibits low profile in all of them, that involves having poor vocabulary and wrong grammar."
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  "word": "semilingual"
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