English-French translations for lingua franca

• langue véhiculaire
• lingua franca
  L’apprentissage d’une «lingua franca» n’est pas suffisant et ne saurait exprimer l’identité européenne. Simply learning a 'lingua franca' is insufficient and fails to reflect Europe's true identity.
  J'aurais en fait voté pour si seul l'anglais était utilisé, puisqu'il fait désormais office de lingua franca. I would actually have voted in favour if only English were to be used, since today it functions as a lingua franca.
  Il y a avait une lingua franca, mais pas d'union monétaire, motif pour lequel, à son retour, on lui confisqua ses livres sterling, honnêtement gagnées,. There was a lingua franca but no monetary union, and so on his return his honestly earned pounds sterling were confiscated from him.
• sabir

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