lingua francas

A form of lingua franca — A common language used by people of diverse backgrounds to communicate with one another, often a basic form of speech with simplified grammar, particularly, one that is not the first language of any of its speakers.

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Meanings

noun
  1. pluralplural of lingua franca

    Our team at the University of Leipzig was responsible for the use of lingua francas. As English is presently the language mainly associated with this term, English functioning as a lingua franca was the focus of our research […]

    2022, Sabine Fiedler, Cyril Robert Brosch, “A note to the reader”, in Esperanto – Lingua Franca and Language Community, John Benjamins Publishing Company, →DOI, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OL, page xix
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