There are fallback languages for editing on the WikibaseRepo (Wikidata) but there are not possible to define fallback languages at the WikibaseClient. For examle at nowiki that is predominantly in Bokmål (nb) it should be possible to use Nynorsk (nn), and perhaps even Danish (dk) and Swedish (sv) before ending up at English (en). If a string in some language is replaced with another it should be shown somehow, possibly wrapped in a span-tag with a class "fallback-language". The class would make it possible to take specialized action.
It could be interesting to override an option "editlink" in these cases and set it to "true".