Common language

The term common language is used with different meanings:

• Standard language (also general language ) (an ideally ) all members of a language community to understand language - in contrast to the dialect and technical languages , known as "general - usage " or (not necessarily in the same meaning) "everyday language" or " vernacular called".
• Common language is also used as a loan translation and synonym for the linguistic term Koine .
• Occasionally, terms such as common Romanesque , common Germanic , common Indo-European or common- Semitic are used for common features of related languages . Most of the time, however, such terms coincide with the more common terms ancient Romanesque , ancient Germanic , ancient Indo-European and ursemitic .

Web links

Wiktionary: Common language  - explanations of meanings, word origins, synonyms, translations

• Common language . In: Duden online dictionary . Bibliographisches Institut GmbH - Dudenverlag.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ General language . In: Duden online dictionary . Bibliographisches Institut GmbH - Dudenverlag.
2. ↑ So at www.wissen.de
3. ↑ so dtv-Lexikon (1990), common language , ISBN 3-423-05998-2