INTERLANGUAGE

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

A common language used by speakers of different languages

Example:

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; lingua franca

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Hypernyms ("interlanguage" is a kind of...):

language; linguistic communication (a systematic means of communicating by the use of sounds or conventional symbols)

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