lingua franca
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an artificial language used for trade between speakers of different languagessynonyms: lengua franca, pidgintype of:lenguaje artificiala language that is deliberately created for a specific purpose
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a common language used by speakers of different languagestype of:comunicación lingüística, lenguajea systematic means of communicating by the use of sounds or conventional symbols
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