…is xenoglossophobia. Read, mark, learn, and inwardly digest.
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Then of course there is xenoglossophilia (love of foreign languages). Sounds like something to do with Hamlet’s late lamented girlfriend, though. 😉
Wouldn’t xenoglossolalia be utterly redundant though (glossolalia being the term for what is referred to as “speaking in tongues” in English-language Bibles)?
The irony of all this is all these terms are themselves borrowed from Greek, if I recall correctly.
It’s easier to say “xenoglossophobia” than it is to say “Fear of foreign languages”.
At least in English.
I have “xenoglossolaliaphobia”, actually.
Yu mean it’s wrong to despise Esperanto???