interlanguage
Collocations
4ADJ.
english, pacific
VERB + INTERLANGUAGE
store
PREP.
in
ADV.
currently, widely
Definitions
noun
A language generated by a student of a foreign language that incorporates aspects of their native language and the target language.
Trasyanka and Surzhyk are interlanguages: a Belarusian–Russian and a Ukrainian–Russian mixed language.
The learner's selection from his/her store of interlanguage rules is not haphazard but systematic and predictable, based as it is on his/her existing rule system in much the same way as the native speaker bases his/her speech on the internalized knowledge of the L1 system.
A lingua franca, a common language used by speakers of different languages
Latin used to be the European interlanguage. Currently English widely serves this purpose.
As [David] Bellos points out, those born as English speakers are now a minority of English speakers: most speak it as a second language. English is the world’s biggest interlanguage.
A pidgin or creole
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noun — a common language used by speakers of different languages
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4Trasyanka and Surzhyk are interlanguages: a Belarusian–Russian and a Ukrainian–Russian mixed language.
WiktionaryThe learner's selection from his/her store of interlanguage rules is not haphazard but systematic and predictable, based as it is on his/her existing rule system in much the same way as the native spe
WiktionaryLatin used to be the European interlanguage. Currently English widely serves this purpose.
WiktionaryIf you like Lojban, maybe read the research paper "Lojban as a Machine Translation Interlanguage in the Pacific."
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