a common language used by speakers of different languages;

"Koine is a dialect of ancient Greek that was the lingua franca of the empire of Alexander the Great and was widely spoken throughout the eastern Mediterranean area in Roman times"

in the 17th century, chinese pidgin english originated as a lingua franca for trade between british people and mostly cantonese-speaking chinese people.

17世纪，洋泾浜英语作为英国人和大多数讲广东话的中国人做生意时的共通语产生了。

on the flipside, english could lose its status as the global lingua franca and the need to learn it will become less relevant, thereby preserving a whole host of other languages.

另一方面，英语可能会失去它作为世界通用语的地位，学习英语也将变得没那么重要，但由此将能保护大量各种各样的语种。

however you use it -- informally, formally, extensively, or casually -- uml is the lingua franca of software development.

无你非正式地，正式地，广泛地，或偶然地使用它，uml是软件开发的混合语言。

another point in britain’s favour (and america’s) is the strength of english, which has emerged as the lingua franca of business, science and much culture.

英国（美国）另外（吸引大批留学生）的一个重要原因是英语的强势，他已经变成了商业、科学以及文化当中的通用语。

the lingua franca that is increasingly spanning the globe is a tongue-twisting accounting-speak that is forcing even americans to rethink some precious notions of financial sovereignty.

人们在推广「会计世界语」的过程中同样遇到了磕磕碰碰，目空一切的美国人也开始重新考虑金融主权问题中一些有价值的理念。

time magazine recently suggested that by the turn of the millennium, english will be the lingua franca for one quarter of the world’s population.

《时代》杂志最近说，在世纪之交，英语将会成为世界四分之一人口的通用语言。

the fundamental contention of the last lingua franca is that civilisation is growing more multilingual.

《最后的通用语》一书的基本观点就是文明的发展必将呈现多种语言齐头并进的态势。

xml is the lingua franca of modern computing.

xml是现代计算的通用语言。

however, while bpmn 1.1 is serving an important role today, it is far from realizing its full potential as lingua franca for business analysts.

然而，尽管现今bpmn1.1充当了重要的角色，但它还远远没有实现它作为业务分析师通用语言的全部潜力。

behind all this lies the reality that the lingua franca in kyrgyzstan is russian.

这一切的背后，吉尔吉斯斯坦通用语言却是俄语。

some say that json has replaced xml as the new lingua franca of internet data exchange.

有人说json已经取代xml作为新的internet数据交换的 通用语。

legislators in bishkek, the capital, spend much of their time arguing about when and where to speak kyrgyz and refuse to speak russian, still the lingua franca between ethnic groups.

首都比什凯克的立法者花费大量时间来讨论在什么时候、什么地方开始使用吉尔吉斯语，不再使用俄语，只有在不同民族间交流时才多语通用。

with the acceptance of xml as lingua franca for semi-structured data, users inevitably began to demand open formats for their office apps, preferably in xml.

随着xml作为半结构化数据通用语言被人们接受，毫无疑问用户也开始要求办公应用程序采用开放格式，最好是xml。