lingua franca

Even in Ghana, where the lingua franca is English, knowing how to use smartphones and apps can be a challenge for newcomers.

He spoke Yiddish — the Hasidic lingua franca — and lived in a Hasidic neighborhood.

She is supposed to be a loud-mouthed troll, which is the lingua franca of the movement, but also to remember that her role as a woman is to be accommodating, submissive and placating to men.

It has become the lingua franca of many local Indigenous groups, all with distinctly different language histories.

Today I live in Taiwan, where Mandarin Chinese is the lingua franca, and fixtures of the California accent have attached itself to my Chinese.