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interlanguages

interlanguages is the plural of interlanguage.

Meaning of interlanguage

Noun

interlanguage (plural interlanguages)

  1. A language generated by a student of a foreign language that incorporates aspects of their native language and the target language.
    • Trasyanka and Surzhyk are interlanguages: a Belarusian–Russian and a Ukrainian–Russian mixed language.
  2. A lingua franca, a common language used by speakers of different languages
    • Latin used to be the European interlanguage. Currently English widely serves this purpose.
    Synonyms:
    koine, lingua franca
  3. A pidgin or creole

Questions about interlanguages

What is interlanguages the plural of?
Interlanguages is the plural of interlanguage.

Words near interlanguages in the dictionary

  1. interlaminating
  2. interlamination
  3. interlaminations
  4. interlandmark
  5. interlanguage
  6. interlanguages
  7. interlap
  8. interlapidate
  9. interlapped
  10. interlapping
  11. interlaps

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Adapted from Wiktionary: interlanguages (page history and authors); interlanguage (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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