a language used by speakers of different languages as a common medium of communication for trading purposes; a lingua franca.
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释义 | the mind > language > languages of the world > pidgins and creoles > [noun] > other spec. (9) trade language1662 a language used by speakers of different languages as a common medium of communication for trading purposes; a lingua franca. lingua franca1666 A pidgin language drawing its lexicon mainly from the southern Romance languages and formerly used as a trading language, first in the eastern… Mobilian1840 In some 19th-cent. usage: = Muskogean, n. Obsolete. lingua geral1841 A language evolving from a simplified standardized version of Tupi, and used as a lingua franca in Brazil. Nago1884 The Niger–Congo language (a dialect of Yoruba) spoken by this people; (also) a patois based partly on this, spoken in Brazil. Papiamentu1895 A Portuguese-based creole language with large Spanish admixture, spoken and written in the islands of Curaçao, Aruba, and Bonaire in the… Police Motu1933 A simplified form of Motu, used in Papua New Guinea as a lingua franca originally by the British and Australian administrations in Port Moresby. Sango1948 An African language of the Adamawa-Eastern group of the Niger–Congo family, spec. that pidginized version of Sango spoken as a lingua franca in the… Macanese1962 The Portuguese-based creole language spoken in Macao. |
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