Ayak and Leni are both citizens of Peru. Ayak speaks Quechua and Leni speaks Aymara, both languages native to Peru but mutually unintelligible. If Ayak meets Leni they will speak in Spanish, which came with the colonial conquest. Spanish is an example of

A) a lingua franca
B) cultural syncretism
C) a dialect
D) an universal language
E) a hybrid language


A) a lingua franca

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