| NOUN | communication | lingua franca, interlanguage, koine | a common language used by speakers of different languages |
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| Meaning | A common language used by speakers of different languages. | |
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| 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 | |
| Broader | language, linguistic communication | A systematic means of communicating by the use of sounds or conventional symbols |
| Spanish | koiné, lengua franca, lengua vehicular, lingua franca | |
| Catalan | interllengua, koiné, lingua franca | |
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