Lingua - definition, pronunciation, transcription

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Amer.  |ˈlɪŋɡwə|  American pronunciation of the word lingua
Brit.  |ˌlɪŋɡwə ˈfræŋkə|  British pronunciation of the word lingua

noun

- a mobile mass of muscular tissue covered with mucous membrane and located in the oral cavity (syn: clapper, tongue)

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...during the Renaissance most men of science and the arts were fain to express their noblest thoughts in Latin, the lingua franca of the learned...

Koine is a dialect of ancient Greek that was the lingua franca of the empire of Alexander the Great and was widely spoken throughout the eastern Mediterranean area in Roman times

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