# koine
## English
### Alternative forms

* koiné
* coene

### Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek κοινή (koinḗ), feminine form of κοινός (koinós, “common, general”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈkɔɪniː/, /ˈkɔɪneɪ/
** Audio (Southern England):(file)

### 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.

#### Derived terms

* koinëisation (linguistics)

#### Related terms

* Koine

#### Translations
### Further reading

* koiné language on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

### Anagrams

* Kenio-, eikon, enoki

## Kari'na
### Etymology

From Proto-Cariban *koine; compare Apalaí kokonie, Trió kokonje.

### Pronunciation

* (Venezuela) IPA: [koɲɲe]
* (West Suriname) IPA: [kojʝe]
* (East Suriname) IPA: [kojɲe]

### Adverb

koine
* by evening or afternoon, in the afternoon

#### Derived terms

* koinaro

### 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

## Norwegian Bokmål
### Noun

koine m (definite singular koineen, indefinite plural koineer, definite plural koineene)
* alternative spelling of koiné

## Norwegian Nynorsk
### Noun

koine m (definite singular koineen, indefinite plural koinear, definite plural koineane)
* alternative spelling of koiné

## Polish
### Etymology

Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek κοινή (koinḗ).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /kɔˈi.nɛ/
* Audio:(file)
* 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

### Anagrams

* konie

## Portuguese
### Noun

koine f or m (plural koines)
* Alternative form of koiné

## Romanian
### Etymology

Borrowed from French koiné.

### Noun

koine f (uncountable)
* koine, lingua franca

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