community language

Noun

 * 1)  An unofficial language spoken by a minority of people.
 * Commonly spoken community languages in Australia include Cantonese, Mandarin, Vietnamese, Arabic, Greek, Italian, indigenous languages, and so on.
 * 1)  An unofficial language spoken as a local lingua franca among people of diverse ethno-linguistic backgrounds.
 * 2) * 1985 UNESCO Regional Office for Education in Africa. 1985. African community languages and their use in literacy and education : a regional survey. Dakar : UNESCO.
 * Such languages, which serve the purposes of general communication over fairly wide areas within countries, are what are referred to as the community languages of Africa.

Translations

 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 社團語言, 社區語言, 團體語言
 * Finnish:
 * Russian: язы́к общи́ны
 * Spanish: