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*''The Last Lingua Franca: English until the Return to Babel''. Penguin in the UK, and Bloomsbury/Wa

...changes to its [[grammar]] as a result. Such languages are one type of ''[[lingua franca]]'', a general term meaning a language used for widespread communication. A *[[Lingua franca]]

...speakers from other countries by virtue of also being an international ''[[lingua franca]]''. ...example, then a non-indigenous language may be made official, e.g. as a ''lingua franca'' to communicate with foreign countries or between groups within the countr

{{r|Lingua franca}}

...may involve a non-indigenous language being made 'official', e.g. as a ''[[lingua franca]]'' to communicate with foreign countries or between groups within the coun *[[Lingua franca]]

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...n of various elements of different languages, and was intended to be a ''[[lingua franca]]'' facilitating international communication.

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...in the 1870s and 1880s. Zamenhof envisaged Esperanto as an artificial ''[[lingua franca]]'' that would facilitate easier global [[communication]].

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...nding the [[Mediterranean Sea]], Latin became the standard language or ''[[lingua franca]]'' of the civilized world. After the fall of the Roman Empire, Latin was p

...lia]], [[New Zealand]], and [[South Africa]]. It is also the most used ''[[lingua franca]]'' in international business, education and diplomacy, and is widely taugh ...l]] importance over the centuries, so the language became an essential ''[[lingua franca]]'' - to do [[business]] other peoples inside and outside the [[British Emp

* ''The Last Lingua Franca'', Nicholas Ostler, Allen Lane, 2010, pages 147-59

...a study is mandatory in all schools in Bhutan, and the language is the ''[[lingua franca]]'' in the districts to the south and east where it is not the mother tong

...country. Many other Chinese learn the language at school, making it the [[lingua franca]] of the Chinese-speaking world, and increasingly people from much further

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