interlanguage An interlanguage is an idiolect that has been developed by a learner of a second language (L2) which preserves some features of their first language (L1), and can also overgeneralize some L2 writing and speaking rules. These two characteristics ...

is an emerging language system in the mind of a second language learner. Interlanguage or interlingual may also refer to: * Interlanguage, a term in

interlinguistics Interlinguistics, as the science of planned languages, has existed for more than a century as a specific branch of linguistics for the study of various aspects of linguistic communication. Interlinguistics is a discipline formalized by Otto Jespers ...

referring to any language used between people who cannot communicate by means of their first languages * Interlanguage, a synonym for

pivot language A pivot language, sometimes also called a bridge language, is an artificial or natural language used as an intermediary language for translation between many different languages – to translate between any pair of languages A and B, one translates ...

, an intermediary language used as a tool for translation between many different languages

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