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lingua francas

lingua francas is the plural of lingua franca.

Meaning of lingua franca

Noun

lingua franca (plural lingua francas or lingue franche or linguae francae or (rare) linguas franca)

  1. A common language used by people of diverse backgrounds to communicate with one another, often a basic form of speech with simplified grammar, particularly, one that is not the first language of any of its speakers.
    • Taking these cues, I rewrote and rewrote the proposal couching my problem in the bland, euphemistic language that I was rapidly learning is the lingua franca of the corporate world.1988, Robert Jackall, “Chapter 1: Moral Probations, Old and New”, in Moral Mazes: The World of Corporate Managers, Twentieth Anniversary edition, →ISBN, page 14

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Questions about lingua francas

What is lingua francas the plural of?
Lingua francas is the plural of lingua franca.

Words near lingua francas in the dictionary

  1. lingtow
  2. lingtows
  3. lingua
  4. lingua franca
  5. Lingua Franca Nova
  6. lingua francas
  7. Lingua Ignota
  8. Lingua Sistemfrater
  9. linguacious
  10. linguacultural
  11. linguaculturally

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Adapted from Wiktionary: lingua francas (page history and authors); lingua franca (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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