OXFORD 9000
📚 noun • entry_id 25208

koine

/ˈkɔɪneɪ/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
koiné
A lingua franca.
If a dominant language was spoken in the area of such trade routes, then this dominant language became the ‘interlanguage’, as it is called. Such an interlanguage, or koiné, is a s…
Now, another term for that product is koine, which, however, I have regularly […] employed in reference to the infrastructure (procedural, juridical, formal, cultural) that enables…