lingo
noun
[ ˈlɪŋɡəʊ ]
• a foreign language or local dialect.
• "it doesn't matter if you can't speak the lingo"
Similar:
language,
tongue,
speech,
parlance,
vocabulary,
mother tongue,
native tongue,
dialect,
idiom,
vernacular,
slang,
patois,
patter,
Origin:
mid 17th century: probably via Portuguese lingoa from Latin lingua ‘tongue’.
