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lingua franca
language used to facilitate communication between groups without a common native language
Details
- Instance of
- type of language
- Subclass of
- auxiliary language, common language
- Said to be the same as
- vehicular language
- described by source
- Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary, Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary, The Nuttall Encyclopædia, Soziolinguistika Hiztegia, Meyers Konversations-Lexikon, 4th edition (1885–1890)
- different from
- common language, koiné language, pidgin, creole, contact language
- opposite of
- vernacular
- studied by
- sociolinguistics
- topic's main category
- Category:Lingua francas
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