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lingue franche

lingue franche 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 lingue franche

What is lingue franche the plural of?
Lingue franche is the plural of lingua franca.

Words near lingue franche in the dictionary

  1. linguaphone
  2. linguaphones
  3. linguas franca
  4. linguatuliasis
  5. linguatulosis
  6. lingue franche
  7. lingueme
  8. linguemes
  9. Lingui
  10. linguica
  11. linguicas

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Adapted from Wiktionary: lingue franche (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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