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community language en · NOUN

Meanings

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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Translations (5)

cmn 社團語言 /社团语言 (language spoken by a minority of people) · ru язы́к общи́ны (language spoken by a minority of people) · cmn 團體語言 /团体语言 (language spoken by a minority of people) · cmn 社區語言 /社区语言 (language spoken by a minority of people) · fi vähemmistökieli (language spoken by a minority of people)