lingua ['lɪŋgwə]

例句:

• English is rapidly becoming the lingua franca of Asia.
  英语正迅速成为亚洲的通用语。
  
• English has become a lingua franca in many parts of the world.
  英语在世界上许多地方都成了通用语。
  
• Swahili is the principal lingua franca in East Africa.
  东非的主要交际语是斯瓦希里语.
  
• Computing is the lingua franca of the creative and digital industries.
  来自BBC
• English, the lingua franca of the south, would be abandoned.
  来自VOA
• There exists a lingua franca of classical music that is just indiscriminately ugly.
  来自NEWYORKER