Urdu, the lingua franca of Pakistan, is necessary but less familiar.

巴基斯坦的语乌尔都语不可或缺，但并不为人熟知。

In our next lecture, I am going to talk about lingua franca and its functions.

下一，我将语及其功能。

If aid workers are lucky, they may find people who know Kanuri, a kind of lingua franca in Borno.

如果幸运的话，救援人员可能找到懂卡努里语（博尔诺州的一种语言）的人。

For example, when an Indian talks to a Singaporean using English, then English is the lingua franca.

例如，当一个印度人英语和一个新加坡人谈话时，英语就语。

It is often a lingua franca of conferences, for example.

例如，它常常的语言。

Although English is not the language with the largest number of native or first language speakers, it has really become a lingua franca.

虽然把英语作为母语或第一语言的人不最多的，但它确实成为了一种语。

Any intelligent organism would at the very least need the ability to locate the position of objects in space. So the ideal interstellar lingua franca would be haptic.

任何智能生物最少都需要有知晓物体在空间中所在位置的能力。所以最理想的星际沟方式应该触觉。

For example, it became a lingua franca in India where a variety of indigenous languages made the use of any one of them as a whole country system problematic.

例如，因为印度有多种土著语言，将任何一种语言作为全国语，都造成严重的问题，所以英语成为印度的语。

That is, how did English gain the present status of popularity? There are in fact a number of interlocking reasons for the popularity of English as a lingua franca.

也就说，英语如何达到现在的普及程度的？事实上，英语作为一种语言得到普及，有许多相互关联的原因。

English, French, and Portuguese are very common lingua francas understood by a large amount of people where English is understood by thirteen percent of the population, French close behind at 11.5 percent, and Portuguese by 3%.

英语、法语和葡萄牙语这几种语言也普遍的语言 ，很多人都能听懂，其中13%的人能听懂英语，法语紧随其后，有11.5%的人听得懂，葡萄牙语能被3%的人听懂。

Then what is a lingua franca? The term refers to a language which is widely adopted for communication between two speakers whose native languages are different from each other's, and where one or both speakers are using it as a second language.

那么什么语？这一术语指两个母语不同的人之间广泛采的一种语言，其中一个或两个说话人都将其作为第二语言使。

Then we may ask a question, " How did English get there" ? That is " How did English gain the present status of popularity" ? There are, in fact, a number of interlocking reasons for the popularity of English as a lingua franca.

然后我们可能问一个问题，" 英语怎么做到的？" 那就" 英语如何获得现在的流行地位的？" 事实上，英语作为一种语言的流行有许多相互关联的原因。