linguafranca

linguafranca
lingua fran·ca (frăngʹkə) n. pl. lingua fran·cas (-kəz) also linguae fran·cae (frăngʹkē, frănʹsē)
1. A medium of communication between peoples of different languages.
2. A mixture of Italian with Provençal, French, Spanish, Arabic, Greek, and Turkish, formerly spoken on the eastern Mediterranean coast.
  [Italian : lingua, language + franca, Frankish (that is, European).]

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