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lingua franca

noun

1 lingua franca

A common language used by speakers of different languages:
— Koine is a dialect of ancient Greek that was the lingua franca of the empire of Alexander the Great and was widely spoken throughout the eastern Mediterranean area in Roman times.

synonyms: interlanguage, koine.

Roget 563: neology, neologism; newfangled expression, nonce expression; back-formation; caconym; barbarism.    archaism, black letter, monkish Latin.    corruption, missaying, malapropism, antiphrasis.    ... show more

Dutch: Koinè, lingua franca, voertaal


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