Prevalence
It is estimated that half of the world is functionally bilingual, and the majority of those bilinguals are ‘native speakers’ of their two languages. Wölck has pointed out that there are many “native bilingual communities,” typically in South America, Africa, and Asia, where “monolingual norms may be unavailable or nonexistent."
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