Hi . How to say this ?

Question

Suppose I wanted to say that someone does not have the advantage of knowing a language in which a conversation is being made :
Would they be :
Lingually compromised
or
Linguistically compromised
or
Language-wise compromised

Answer 1

Lingually compromised sounds like tongue tied or some physical problem restricting speech.
Other two or ok, preferably in that order.

Answer 2

Linguistically compromised is correct. Or you can be more specific if you knew the language, for example if the language being spoken was Japanese, then you would say your friend is Japanese deficient. This is better than language-wise compromised because s/he is not compromised.. S/he does not have enough knowledge of the language, but s/he knows something. Your friend has a deficiency in that particular language.

Answer 3

Linguistically compromised, or even linguistically challenged. I think I would also add the name of the language, eg linguistically compromised in Russian. Hope this helps

Answer 4

language wise compromise and it rhymes

Answer 5

linguistically

Answer 6

Use all