franca in the Oxford Spanish Dictionary

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lingua franca <pl lingua francas> [Am ˌlɪŋɡwə ˈfræŋkə, Brit ˌlɪŋɡwə ˈfraŋkə] N

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Cultural and linguistic innovations spread along trade routes and languages of peoples dominant in trade developed into languages of wider communication (lingua franca).
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The system offers a lingua franca for all airline pilots, a worldwide striving for on-time arrivals and departures via gleaming concourses.
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Today it is still widely spoken although it has given way to Spanish as the more common lingua franca.
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They often can not speak the local language and therefore use Mandarin as a lingua franca.
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