Interlanguage
/ɪnˈtɜɹˈlæŋɡwɪd͡ʒ/ noun
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Noun
- 1 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."
- 2 a common language used by speakers of different languages wordnet
- 3 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."
- 4 A pidgin or creole
Synonyms
All synonymsExample
More examples"If you like Lojban, maybe read the research paper "Lojban as a Machine Translation Interlanguage in the Pacific.""
Etymology
From inter- + language. In the language acquisition sense introduced by Larry Selinker in 1972.