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Lingua franca   /lˈɪŋgwə frˈæŋkə/   Listen
Lingua franca

noun
1.
A common language used by speakers of different languages.  Synonyms: interlanguage, koine.





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"Lingua franca" Quotes from Famous Books



... was brought to Madame Binat's and filled his nostrils with the well-remembered smell of the East, that runs without a change from the Canal head to Hong-Kong, and his mouth with the villainous Lingua Franca of the Levant. The heat smote him between the shoulder-blades with the buffet of an old friend, his feet slipped on the sand, and his coat-sleeve was warm as new-baked bread when he lifted ...
— The Light That Failed • Rudyard Kipling
... Lingala (a lingua franca trade language), Kingwana (a dialect of Kiswahili or Swahili), ...
— The 1999 CIA Factbook • United States. Central Intelligence Agency.


Words linked to "Lingua franca" :   interlanguage, language, linguistic communication, koine


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