How to pronounce“koine”in English
flavor so the name of the dessert of Team India is the wishing tree nestled upon a crunchy base of delicious and creamy vanilla bean ice cream layered
between the ice cream is a tart strawberry koine of course uh the 24
members of the panel are all Specialists each one tastes and evaluates 44 cakes and desserts every day individual scores are kept secret
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Definitions of “koine”
A linguistic variety that has developed in supraregional contact between speakers of various interrelated dialects, typically in such a way that features shared by several dialects prevail and those of limited distribution are avoided.
“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.”
A lingua franca.
“Darī (q.v.) is a term long recommended by Afghan authorities to designate Afghan Persian in contrast to Iranian Persian; a written language common to all educated Afghanis, Darī must not be confused with Kābolī, the dialect of Kabul and surrounding areas that is more or less understood by eighty percent of the non-Persian speaking population and is fast becoming the nation’s koine.”
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