link language

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link language

noun link languages · link-language

A common language linking various people groups or ethnicities, where the adopted language is not a native language of any of the speakers using it; a lingua franca. [...] 'Adoption of [a second] language [in our case Latin] . . . generally leads to changes in the adopted link language, or even in the native language of the speaker, and thus can have profound effects on linguistic change.'

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@misc{link_language_2026,
  title = {link language},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/link%20language},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}