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Lingua franca
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Language used to facilitate communication between groups without a common native language
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A lingua franca (; lit. 'Frankish tongue'; for plurals see § Usage notes), also known as a bridge language, common language, trade language, auxiliary language, link language or language of wider communication (LWC), is a language systematically used to make communication possible between groups of people who do not share a native language or...

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type of language
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auxiliary language
common language
Different from
common language
Koiné language
Pidgin
Creole language
Contact language
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