interlanguage
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From inter- + language. In the language acquisition sense introduced by Larry Selinker in 1972.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]interlanguage (plural interlanguages)
- 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.
- 2011, Anna Trosborg, Interlanguage Pragmatics: Requests, Complaints, and Apologies, Walter de Gruyter, →ISBN, page 54:
- 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.
- A lingua franca, a common language used by speakers of different languages
- Synonyms: koine, lingua franca
- Latin used to be the European interlanguage. Currently English widely serves this purpose.
- A pidgin or creole
Related terms
[edit]Translations
[edit]mixed language
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lingua franca — see lingua franca
pidgin — see pidgin
creole — see creole
Further reading
[edit]interlanguage on Wikipedia.Wikipedia