English-Czech translations for lingua franca

• lingua franca
  Hlasovala bych pro, pokud by se měla využívat jen angličtina, protože ta dnes funguje jako lingua franca. I would actually have voted in favour if only English were to be used, since today it functions as a lingua franca.

Definition of lingua franca

• Sabir, the Italian-based pidgin that served as the lingua franca of Mediterranean trade in the late Middle Ages and early Modern period (c. 11th–19th centuries

Related words

• bilingual
• monolingual
• multilingual
• bilingualism
• multilingualism
• monolingualism
• trilingual
• lingual
• translingual
• interlingual