lingua

Example Sentences

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Lego’s effectiveness as a visual lingua franca must be both a point of pride for The Lego Group and, at times, its bane.

From Salon • Apr. 26, 2026

This entails programs to promote standard Chinese as the national lingua franca, instill pride in Chinese cultural heritage and exert stronger central control over regions with large ethnic-minority populations such as Tibet and Xinjiang.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 12, 2026

His Russian has improved in prison, where it is a lingua franca among the inmates.

From Barron's • Jan. 30, 2026

They were talking in Swahili - the lingua franca in the region - and afterwards began shouting "Allahu Akbar", meaning "God is greatest".

From BBC • Jun. 18, 2023

Mice do not speak Lapine, but there is a very simple, limited lingua franca of the hedgerow and woodland.

From "Watership Down: A Novel" by Richard Adams