| 单词 | lingua franca |
| 释义 | lingua franca (once / 22259 pages) n A region usually adopts a lingua franca, or common language, when its inhabitants speak many different languages or dialects. India, a country in which people speak hundreds of different languages, chose Hindi in the 1950s to be its lingua franca so that citizens would be able to communicate with each other. The term is an Italian word meaning "Frankish tongue," a reference to the original lingua franca, a mixture of Italian, French, Turkish, and other languages in the Mediterranean region that was used between the eleventh and nineteenth centuries. WORD FAMILYlingua franca USAGE EXAMPLESMost African countries are made up of numerous different ethnic groups who do not necessarily have a lingua franca, so Pidgin has developed. BBC(Nov 16, 2016) Command of a country’s lingua franca opens the door to hundreds more “bilingual bachelor’s,” taught in the native language and English. New York Times(Nov 02, 2016) These chefs have made far-flung geography and emerging culinary capitals the lingua franca of modern dining. Wall Street Journal(Nov 03, 2016) 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 Syn|Hyper interlanguage, koine language, linguistic communication a systematic means of communicating by the use of sounds or conventional symbols |
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