Community language
"Community language" in a Sentence (2 examples)
Commonly spoken community languages in Australia include Cantonese, Mandarin, Vietnamese, Arabic, Greek, Italian, indigenous languages, and so on.
1985 UNESCO Regional Office for Education in Africa. 1985. African community languages and their use in literacy and education : a regional survey. Dakar : UNESCO. Such languages, which serve the purposes of general communication over fairly wide areas within countries, are what are referred to as the community languages of Africa.