community language

名词 n.

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. An unofficial language spoken by a minority of people.
    — Commonly spoken community languages in Australia include Cantonese, Mandarin, Vietnamese, Arabic, Greek, Italian, indigenous languages, and so on.
  2. An unofficial language spoken as a local lingua franca among people of diverse ethno-linguistic backgrounds.
    — 1985 UNESCO Regional Office for Education in Africa. 1985. African community languages and their use in literacy and education : a regional survey. Dakar : UNESCO. Such languages, which serve the purposes of general communication over fairly wide areas within countries, are what are referred to as the community languages of Africa.

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