- Look up
lingua in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.
Lingua (Latin, 'tongue') may
refer to:
Lingua (journal), a peer-reviewed
academic journal of general...
- A
lingua franca (/ˌlɪŋɡwə ˈfræŋkə/; lit. 'Frankish tongue'; for
plurals see § Usage notes), also
known as a
bridge language,
common language,
trade language...
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Latin (
lingua Latina,
pronounced [ˈlɪŋɡʷa ɫaˈtiːna], or
Latinum [ɫaˈtiːnʊ̃]) is a
classical language belonging to the
Italic branch of the Indo-European...
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Portuguese (endonym: português or
língua portuguesa) is a
Western Romance language of the Indo-European
language family originating from the
Iberian Peninsula...
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Italian (italiano,
pronounced [itaˈljaːno] , or
lingua italiana,
pronounced [ˈliŋɡwa itaˈljaːna]) is a
Romance language of the Indo-European
language family...
- The
Mediterranean Lingua Franca, or Sabir, was a
contact language, or languages, that were used as a
lingua franca in the
Mediterranean Basin from the...
- A
lingua ignota (Latin for "unknown language") was
described by the 12th-century
abbess Hildegard of Bingen, who
apparently used it for
mystical purposes...
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philosophical language he created,
which he
named lingua generalis or
lingua universalis.
Leibniz aimed for his
lingua universalis to be
adopted as a universal...
- This is a list of
lingua francas. A
lingua franca is a
language systematically used to make
communication possible between people not
sharing a
first language...
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English as a
lingua franca (ELF) is the use of the
English language "as a
global means of inter-community communication" and can be
understood as "any...
