interlanguage

About 0.18 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. noun A language generated by a student of a foreign language that incorporates aspects of their native language and the target language.
2. noun A lingua franca, a common language used by speakers of different languages

   Latin used to be the European interlanguage. Currently English widely serves this purpose.

3. noun A pidgin or creole

Similar words

interlingua pragmatics xenization third language acquisition interference substrate positive transfer substitution learned borrowing importation

Often followed by

pragmatics development studies of and is phonology communication grammar