Noun that means ‘person able to read, write, speak, and comprehend a language’?

Question

Would you please introduce me a Noun that means ‘person able to read, write, speak, and comprehend a language’?

I know- a noun ‘literate’ means ‘person able to do 2 skills, reading and writing’ -, but need to know the Noun that means ‘person able to do 4 skills, reading writing speaking and comprehending’.

I need to use the Noun in a question that will be titled “Verb that means ‘order’” and posted by me at ‘General- Education & Reference’, ‘Higher Education’, and ‘Words & Word Play’ section of this Yahoo Answer.

I searched the Noun at following 8 thesaurus websites for two hours until 15 minutes ago, but could not find the Noun during the search:
answers.com/library/thesaurus, encarta.msn.com/thesaurus, infoplease.com/thesaurus, m-w.com/thesaurus, online-thesaurus.net/thesaurus... synonym.com/synonym, thesaurus.reference.com, wordnet.princeton.edu.

I typed:

‘letterer’-‘lingual’-‘literate... -‘reader’--‘inditer’-‘penner’-... ‘deliverer’-‘emitter’-‘express... ‘verbalizer’-‘vocalizer’-‘voic... ‘appreciater’- ‘apprehender’-‘assimilater’-‘c... ‘seizer’-‘senser’-‘taker’-‘twi...
on search bar of above websites,

then clicked a rectangle button at dexter adjacence of the bar a second after the type --search result page was displayed for the typed words at the website a second after the type -- and searched the Noun at the page.

Thank you for your time and help!

Answer 1

The person is a "well-read" or "cultured" man/woman.

Answer 2

1. Mandarin 2. English 3. Arabic 4. Hindu 5. Spanish 6. Portuguese 7. Bengali 8. Russian 9. Japanese 10. Punjabi

Answer 3

I think I answered this before, probably in a different category.

My suggestion then, and now, is to use the word linguist.
That's the only noun form I can come up with, though the adjective fluent is ideal to describe such a person. Unfortunately there's not a noun form of fluent in current English usage.

Answer 4

There are ancient languages which can be written and comprehended, but no one absolutely knows exactly how to orally read them accurately.

There a mute folk who can read and write and some can also understand spoken words, but not speak.

Chinese has one written language which expresses dozens of different spoken languages.

I'm acustomed to the term "literate" and the phrase "verbally fluent" for categorizing communication skill in a single language. They're not always hand-in-hand.

Answer 5

I still think the word literate would work since it also implies comprehension of a language.

Answer 6

literate means able to read and write then it has to include speaking and comprehension or how could you do any if you could not do all four?

Answer 7

I agree that it could be 'fluent' that you're looking for, because that's generally what it means what one is for what you described.

Answer 8

Okay, let's "create"a custom word for a custom situation,doesn't everyone else??? How about," quadliteracy " ???

Answer 9

okay, this person would be 'eloquent' or 'well'read' or 'learned'
there's probably more to it but that's all i can think of

Answer 10

fluent