Examples of use of lingua
1. Its department lacks sufficient knowledge of English, the current lingua franca of international business.
2. English on one hand is officially the lingua franc a of South Sudan.
3. On the Indian sub–continent it is a fast–developing lingua franca.
4. English is also the lingua franca at Thales and EADS – the French government has stakes in both defence groups.
5. "Whereas in the earlier years the lingua franca was English, today it is Hebrew.