lingua franca in English

noun
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a language that is adopted as a common language between speakers whose native languages are different.
The national language of Zambia is English, which also serves as the lingua franca (common language).
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1. Although officially bilingual, French is undoubtedly Brussels' lingua franca.

2. The Bantu language of the Bemba has become the lingua franca of Zambia.

3. Bengali is also the official language of Bangladesh and serves as the nation’s lingua franca

4. The West Atlantic language of this people , widely used as a lingua franca in Senegal.

5. Some dialects spoken in Italy are so dissimilar that ethnic Albanians use Italian as a lingua franca

6. During Antiquity, Greek was a widely spoken lingua franca in the Mediterranean world and many places beyond.

7. Ambassadorially polite, fluent in the lingua franca of keepy-uppy and gigawatt grins, he circumnavigated the globe like football’s Palin.

8. Know for its harmonic cadence, Arabic is considered the lingua franca of the Arab world with over 300 million native speakers.

9. Arabic became the new lingua franca and Islam quickly replaced Zoroastrianism; mosques were built,[Sentencedict.com] and many Persians intermarried with Arabs.

10. The Ambonese language as the lingua franca in Maluku has been understood by almost all residents of Maluku Province and generally, little by little, is understood by other East Indonesian people such as those in Ternate, Manado, Kupang, etc

11. If ever the country wishes to have a lingua franca for the entire country , it is this form of Hindi evolved by the people after years of trial and error , which can be readily adopted and may also be acceptable to the people .

12. English features on road signs, public notices, and in advertisements, etc. English was the sole official language during British colonial rule and lingua franca (until 1960) and continued to be used (de facto) in courts of law until 1989 and in legislature until 1963.

13. A variety of Melanesian pidgin and the national language of VANUATU, sharing official status with English and French, which are the principal languages of education.Bislama, descended from BEACH LA MAR, is a LINGUA FRANCA for a population speaking some 100 distinct local languages, and is more or less evenly distributed throughout the country.

14. The selection will, to a considerable extent, be a matter of historical accident.(53) However, the strength of network externalities and the advantages that derive from the public good character of a shared medium of communication will guarantee that the economic yield that accrues to the "accidentally" selected common language will be such that individuals who are working, investing, trading, and making collective decisions will invest in the lingua franca.(54) A self-reinforcing mechanism will have been created.