Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈkɔɪniː/, /ˈkɔɪneɪ/
Noun
koine (plural koines or koinai)
- A regional language that becomes standard over time.
- A lingua franca.
- Synonym: interlanguage
2004, Steven Roger Fischer, A History of Language, Reaktion Books, page 178: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 simplified dialect with which speakers of two or more quite different dialects communicate with one another.
2013, J. E. Wansborough, Lingua Franca in the Mediterranean, Routledge, page 153: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 and informs composition of a lingua franca. […] In linguistic scholarship koine mostly (!) refers to a standard language expanded by input from several dialectal sources with concomitant levelling of morphological and syntactic differences and adoption of a general and possibly restricted lexicon.
Translations
regional language that becomes standard
lingua franca
- Catalan: koiné (ca) f
- Danish: koinesprog n, koine
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: koinéspråk n
- Nynorsk: koinéspråk n
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References
- Courtz, Hendrik (2008) A Carib grammar and dictionary, Toronto: Magoria Books, →ISBN, page 297
- Ahlbrinck, Willem (1931) “koye”, in Encyclopaedie der Karaïben, Amsterdam: Koninklijke Akademie van Wetenschappen, page 230; republished as Willem Ahlbrinck, Doude van Herwijnen, transl., L'Encyclopédie des Caraïbes, Paris, 1956, page 224
- Yamada, Racquel-María (2010) “koije”, in Speech community-based documentation, description, and revitalization: Kari’nja in Konomerume, University of Oregon, page 750
Noun
koine m (definite singular koineen, indefinite plural koineer, definite plural koineene)
- alternative spelling of koiné
Noun
koine m (definite singular koineen, indefinite plural koinear, definite plural koineane)
- alternative spelling of koiné
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kɔˈi.nɛ/
- Rhymes: -inɛ
- Syllabification: ko‧i‧ne
Noun
koine n (indeclinable)
- (historical) Koine Greek (common supra-regional form of Greek spoken and written during the Hellenistic period, the Roman Empire, and the early Byzantine Empire)
- (linguistics) koine (regional language that becomes standard over time)
Further reading
- koine in Polish dictionaries at PWN
- koine in PWN's encyclopedia
Noun
koine f or m (plural koines)
- Alternative form of koiné