exophonic

English

Etymology

From exo- +‎ phonic.

Adjective

exophonic (not comparable)

1. Writing in a language other than one's native language.
   • 2011, David Bellos, chapter 19, in Is that a Fish in Your Ear?:

     The role of German as medium for exophonic writers has actually been growing strongly in recent years.

   • 2013, Yoko Tawada, Yoko Tawada's Portrait of a Tongue:

     The adopted language is typically acquired as an adult; exophonic writers are not bilingual in the sense that they grew up speaking two languages, and indeed do not necessarily achieve the type of spoken fluency associated with the term "bilingualism."

   • 2016, Patricia Haseltine, Sheng-mei Ma, Doing English in Asia: Global Literature and Culture, page 21:

     He became a temporary exophonic writer, composing the part of his first novel in a language other than his mother tongue, […]

Related terms

• exophony