The Only Use
lingua franca
in
1984, by Orwell
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- Except that English is its chief lingua franca and Newspeak its official language, it is not centralized in any way.†
p. 209.2
Definitions:
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(1)
(lingua franca) a common language used by speakers of different languages
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)