What does interlanguage mean?
Interlanguage means A language generated by a student of a foreign language that incorporates aspects of their native language and the target language..
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/ɪnˈtɜɹˈlæŋɡwɪd͡ʒ/ · noun
A language generated by a student of a foreign language that incorporates aspects of their native language and the target language..
Trasyanka and Surzhyk are interlanguages: a Belarusian–Russian and a Ukrainian–Russian mixed language.
The learner's selection from his/her store of interlanguage rules is not haphazard but systematic and predictable, based as it is on his/her existing rule system in much the same way as the native speaker bases his/her speech on the internalized knowledge of the L1 system.
Latin used to be the European interlanguage. Currently English widely serves this purpose.
As [David] Bellos points out, those born as English speakers are now a minority of English speakers: most speak it as a second language. English is the world’s biggest interlanguage.
Use interlanguage when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Interlanguage means A language generated by a student of a foreign language that incorporates aspects of their native language and the target language..
Common synonyms include koine, lingua franca, interlingua.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
Trasyanka and Surzhyk are interlanguages: a Belarusian–Russian and a Ukrainian–Russian mixed language.
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