Koiné language
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In linguistics, a koiné language, koiné dialect, or simply koiné (Ancient Greek κοινή, "common [language]") is a standard or common language or dialect that has arisen as a result of the contact, mixing, and often simplification of two or more mutually intelligible varieties of the same language.
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Koiné languages
- Fiji Hindi
- Caribbean Hindustani
- Dano-Norwegian, the basis of Norway's most widely-used written standard, Bokmål.Template:Cn
- Hutterite German
- Koiné Greek, the language that has given name to the general phenomenon.
- Modern Hebrew, which is unique in being a temporal koine of different stages of the Hebrew language.
- Musi language, also known as Palembang Malay, spoken in South Sumatra.
- N'Ko, which is both a script and an emerging literary version of the Manding languages.
- Great Andamanese koine, mixed Khora–Bo–Jeru–Sare on a Jeru base
- Amoy Hokkien and Taiwanese Hokkien , both mutually intelligible and sometimes known as "Standard Hokkien", had developed from a mixture of Quanzhou dialects and Zhangzhou dialects into a Koine of the Hokkien language.
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See also
- Dialect continuum
- Dialect levelling
- Language shift
- Lingua franca
- Mixed language
- Mutual intelligibility
- Naturalistic planned language
- Post-creole speech continuum
- Standard language
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