Meaning of interintelligible | Babel Free

Definitions

Of a speech variety, able to be understood by speakers of another variety.

Examples

“The Okrika dialect, with Kalabari and Bonny, falls into the North-Eastern group of dialects which are partially interintelligible with Brass-Ndembe but not with the Central-Western dialects.”

“The sense of independence from London norms ... was difficult to establish with the obvious reality in mind that English, Scottish, Irish, American, Australian and other Englishes are, after all, interintelligible and undoubtedly varieties of one and the same language.”

CEFR level