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    The Mediterranean Lingua Franca, or Sabir, was a contact language, or languages, that were used as a lingua franca in the Mediterranean Basin from the...
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  • A lingua franca (/ˌlɪŋɡwə ˈfræŋkə/; lit. 'Frankish tongue'; for plurals see § Usage notes), also known as a bridge language, common language, trade language...
    77 KB (7,815 words) - 09:26, 4 November 2024
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    Lingua Franca Nova (pronounced [ˈliŋgwa ˈfraŋka ˈnova]), abbreviated as LFN and known colloquially as Elefen, is a constructed international auxiliary...
    32 KB (3,004 words) - 21:57, 27 May 2024
  • This is a list of lingua francas. A lingua franca is a language systematically used to make communication possible between people not sharing a first...
    76 KB (9,739 words) - 18:18, 12 October 2024
  • English as a lingua franca (ELF) is the use of the English language "as a global means of inter-community communication" and can be understood as "any...
    46 KB (6,000 words) - 02:13, 27 June 2024
  • Lingua Franca is an EP by the supergroup T.R.A.M., featuring multi-instrumentalist Adrian Terrazas, formerly of The Mars Volta, guitarists Javier Reyes...
    8 KB (827 words) - 02:40, 12 December 2023
  • States. She directed the films Señorita (2011), Aparisyon (2012) and Lingua Franca (2019). She also directed a short film called Shangri-La (2021) as part...
    17 KB (1,124 words) - 06:40, 25 September 2024
  • linguist Salikoko Mufwene is "languages spoken as vernaculars or as lingua francas outside their homelands and by populations other than those ethnically...
    17 KB (1,641 words) - 14:08, 9 October 2024
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    regional lingua francas, foreign and additional languages, heritage languages, languages in the religious domain, English as a lingua franca, and sign...
    56 KB (4,220 words) - 08:09, 7 November 2024
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    languages are spoken on the Andaman Islands. Historically, Sanskrit was the lingua franca of South Asia. In the Indo-Muslim period, Persian became a connecting...
    24 KB (2,093 words) - 12:27, 4 November 2024
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    language cluster comprising 30 or so modern varieties. Arabic is the lingua franca of people who live in countries of the Arab world as well as of Arabs...
    50 KB (3,421 words) - 18:02, 23 October 2024
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    Burmese language (category Languages with ISO 639-1 code)
    Sino-Tibetan language spoken in Myanmar, where it is the official language, lingua franca, and the native language of the Bamar, the country's principal ethnic...
    98 KB (9,474 words) - 01:48, 31 October 2024
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    Sango language (category Languages with ISO 639-1 code)
    African Republic It is used as a lingua franca across the country and had 450,000 native speakers in 1988. It also has 1.6 million second language speakers...
    23 KB (2,351 words) - 14:18, 5 October 2024
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    and the Americas. By the mid-16th century, Portuguese had become a lingua franca in Asia and Africa, used not only for colonial administration and trade...
    160 KB (14,224 words) - 18:32, 2 November 2024
  • Artificial Languages" (PDF). Journal of Universal Language. No. 7. pp. 65–120. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2014-02-01. Complete grammar on the official...
    25 KB (3,002 words) - 10:00, 13 May 2024
  • weeks after its publication in May 1996, Sokal revealed in the magazine Lingua Franca that the article was a hoax. The hoax caused controversy about the scholarly...
    34 KB (3,767 words) - 04:16, 23 October 2024
  • International English (category CS1 maint: archived copy as title)
    progress. More recently, there have been proposals for English as a lingua franca (ELF) in which non-native speakers take a highly active role in the...
    39 KB (4,797 words) - 17:24, 12 October 2024
  • language. The concept is related to but separate from the idea of a lingua franca (or dominant language) that people must use to communicate. The study...
    57 KB (5,996 words) - 21:02, 24 October 2024
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    Hindi (redirect from ISO 639-1:hi)
    script. It is the official language of India alongside English and the lingua franca of North India. Hindi is considered a Sanskritised register of the Hindustani...
    101 KB (8,492 words) - 14:23, 2 November 2024
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    Hindustani language (category Lingua francas)
    language spoken in North India and Pakistan, and functioning as the lingua franca of the region. It is also spoken by the Deccani people. Hindustani is...
    101 KB (10,426 words) - 09:19, 2 November 2024
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