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plural interlanguages
A language generated by a student of a foreign language that incorporates aspects of their native language and the target language. quotations examples
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.
2011, Anna Trosborg, Interlanguage Pragmatics: Requests, Complaints, and Apologies, Walter de Gruyter, page 54
A lingua franca, a common language used by speakers of different languages quotations examples
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.
2011 October 28, Adam Thirlwell, “The Joyful Side of Translation”, in The New York Times
A pidgin or creole examples