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Catalan to English translations [PRO] Social Sciences - Linguistics | |||||||
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3 +2 | vehicular languages |
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vehicular languages Explanation: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lingua_franca A lingua franca is any language widely used beyond the population of its native speakers (....) A related concept is that of a “vehicular language.” It is defined as a basic linguistic structure for proposed “international auxiliary languages,” for example, the use of an Indo-European language, or Indo-European itself, in the development of Esperanto. This is discussed in Umberto Eco's, “The Search for the Perfect Language,” Blackwell Publishers, 1995, p. 330 ff. Another explanation: http://computing-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com/Vehicular ... lingua franca (redirected from Vehicular language)... |
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