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lingua franca

DEFINITIONS OF: lingua franca

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n 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
Type of:
language, linguistic communication
a systematic means of communicating by the use of sounds or conventional symbols
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