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link languages

link languages is the plural of link language.

Meaning of link language

Noun

link language (plural link languages)

  1. A common language linking various people groups or ethnicities, where the adopted language is not a native language of any of the speakers using it; a lingua franca.
    • [...] 'Adoption of [a second] language [in our case Latin] . . . generally leads to changes in the adopted link language, or even in the native language of the speaker, and thus can have profound effects on linguistic change.'2003, James Noel Adams, Bilingualism and the Latin Language

Questions about link languages

What is link languages the plural of?
Link languages is the plural of link language.

Words near link languages in the dictionary

  1. link farm
  2. link farms
  3. link in
  4. link juice
  5. link language
  6. link languages
  7. link motion
  8. link motions
  9. link out
  10. link rat
  11. link rot

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Adapted from Wiktionary: link languages (page history and authors); link language (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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