Interlanguage (disambiguation)
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Interlanguage can mean:
- Any language used between persons who cannot communicate by means of their first languages. It may be a pidgin, an established vehicular language (lingua franca), a constructed international auxiliary language or any other spoken, signed or written language used in this function. See Interlinguistics.
- A learner's interlanguage (interim language), i.e., an emerging linguistic system developed by a learner of a second language. In this sense, the term interlanguage was first used by Larry Selinker (1972).
- An artificial or natural language used as an intermediary language for automatic translation between many different languages. See pivot language.