interlanguage — Diccionario de inglés

Sustantivo

1. A language generated by a student of a foreign language that incorporates aspects of their native language and the target language.

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   Trasyanka and Surzhyk are interlanguages: a Belarusian–Russian and a Ukrainian–Russian mixed language.

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   The learner's selection from his/her store of interlanguage rules is not haphazard but systematic and predictable, based as it is on his/her existing rule system in much the same way as the native speaker bases his/her speech on the internalized knowledge of the L1 system.

2. A lingua franca, a common language used by speakers of different languages

   Sinónimos

   koinelingua franca

   Ejemplos

   Latin used to be the European interlanguage. Currently English widely serves this purpose.

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   As [David] Bellos points out, those born as English speakers are now a minority of English speakers: most speak it as a second language. English is the world’s biggest interlanguage.

3. A pidgin or creole

Sustantivo

1. a common language used by speakers of different languages

   Sinónimos

   lingua francakoine

   Términos más generales

   languagelinguistic communication

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   Koine is a dialect of ancient Greek that was the lingua franca of the empire of Alexander the Great and was widely spoken throughout the eastern Mediterranean area in Roman times