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lingua::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | clapper, glossa, tongue |
| Type of | articulator, organ |
| Derivation | lingual |
Examples of lingua
lingua
During the past year, it seems, English has become the lingua franca of protest.
From the time.com
Indeed, Latin became lingua franca shortly before the fall of the Roman Empire.
From the newscientist.com
In many villages people speak Kinyarwanda rather than the lingua franca, Swahili.
From the economist.com
Urdu is the lingua franca of the region, understood by most of the inhabitants.
From the en.wikipedia.org
The Mediterranean Lingua Franca is the original basis for the word lingua franca.
From the en.wikipedia.org
English is still, as Prof Al-Khalili points out, the lingua franca of science.
From the telegraph.co.uk
Most of Congo's regular soldiers speak Lingala, the lingua franca of the west.
From the economist.com
From the 7th century BCE, Aramaic became the lingua franca of the Middle East.
From the en.wikipedia.org
Traditionally a local lingua franca, its usage has declined in recent decades.
From the en.wikipedia.org
- Tongue: a mobile mass of muscular tissue covered with mucous membrane and located in the oral cavity
- Lingua: An International Review of General Linguistics is a leading international peer-reviewed monthly journal in general linguistics, founded in 1949 and published by Elsevier. It is devoted to work in theoretical linguistics of any scientific trend. Its current executive editor is Prof. ...
- Lingua, or the Combat of the Tongue and the Five Senses for Superiority is an allegorical stage play of the first decade of the seventeenth century, generally attributed to the academic playwright Thomas Tomkis.
- The Lingua is a sculpture by American artist Jim Sanborn located at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center.
- Latin = tongue, adjective, lingual.
- Tongue(2) - 3 misses
