Phrase Hound found 6 phrases and 13 compound words that contain lingua. The most common are listed below. Open lingua in the live search for definitions, filters, and the full list.
Phrases 6
- lingua francaA common language used by people of diverse backgrounds to communicate with one another, often a basic form of speech with simplified grammar, particularly, one that is not the first language of any of its speakers.
- Lingua Franca NovaA constructed language created by C. George Boeree based on French, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish, and Catalan using either Latin or Cyrillic alphabets with grammar based on that of Romance Creoles.
- Lingua IgnotaA Latin-influenced mystical 12th-century constructed language recorded by St. Hildegard of Bingen, and apparently the first entirely artificial language.
- Lingua SistemfraterAn a posteriori international auxiliary language created by Pham Xuan Thai in 1957, making use of a predominantly Greco-Latin lexicon and an Asian-based grammar.
- Mediterranean Lingua FrancaSabir, the pidgin Italian-based lingua franca spoken along the Mediterranean to facilitate trade from the 11th to the 19th centuries.
- lingua francasplural of lingua franca: A common language used by people of diverse backgrounds to communicate with one another, often a basic form of speech with simplified grammar, particularly, one that is not the first language of any of its speakers.
Compound words 13
- lingualRelated to, near, or on the side toward the tongue.
- linguaculturalRelating to language and the ways it is used in culture.
- linguaphoneSynonym of lamellaphone: Any of several musical instruments (percussion idiophones) in which the sound is produced by plucking a series of thin lamellae attached to a sounding board.
- linguallyTowards, or in relation to, the tongue.
- linguacultureA culture with its associated language.
- linguaculturesplural of linguaculture: A culture with its associated language.
- linguadentalAn utterance pronounced by the aid or use of the tongue and teeth.
- lingualesplural of lingualis: A longitudinal band of muscular fibres, situated on the undersurface of the tongue, lying in the interval between the hyoglossus and the geniohyoglossus, and extending from the base to the apex of the organ.
- lingualisA longitudinal band of muscular fibres, situated on the undersurface of the tongue, lying in the interval between the hyoglossus and the geniohyoglossus, and extending from the base to the apex of the organ.
- linguaphonesplural of linguaphone: Any of several musical instruments (percussion idiophones) in which the sound is produced by plucking a series of thin lamellae attached to a sounding board.