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  • ...dgin: today, for instance, [[English language|English]] is the widest-used lingua franca, and other major languages which act as lingua francas include [[Arabic lan ...most users not being native speakers. This shows that a language can be a lingua franca regardless of speakers' proficiency in the language, and how linguistically
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  • *''The Last Lingua Franca: English until the Return to Babel''. Penguin in the UK, and Bloomsbury/Wa
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  • ...anguage or where native speakers are typically in the minority; name from 'Lingua Franca', a pidgin once used around the Mediterranean.
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  • #Redirect [[Lingua franca]]
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  • ...dgin: today, for instance, [[English language|English]] is the widest-used lingua franca, and other major languages which act as lingua francas include [[Arabic lan ...most users not being native speakers. This shows that a language can be a lingua franca regardless of speakers' proficiency in the language, and how linguistically
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  • Austronesian language widely used as a ''lingua franca'' in and around Indonesia, where it is also the official language.
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  • ...anguage or where native speakers are typically in the minority; name from 'Lingua Franca', a pidgin once used around the Mediterranean.
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  • ...official administrative or religious languages, trade languages and any [[lingua franca]] or language of the elites that is also spoken in the same region. For ex ...itory. Later, during the colonial period, Spanish replaced Quechua as the lingua franca of the region and Quechua fractured into a family of local vernaculars. To
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  • *''The Last Lingua Franca: English until the Return to Babel''. Penguin in the UK, and Bloomsbury/Wa
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  • ...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]]
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  • ...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
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  • ...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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  • {{r|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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  • *[[Lingua franca]]
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  • *[[Lingua franca]]
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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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  • *[[Lingua franca]]
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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
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  • ...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
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  • * ''The Last Lingua Franca'', Nicholas Ostler, Allen Lane, 2010, pages 147-59
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  • ...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
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  • ...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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  • ...the intellectual descendants of James Madison can no longer be ignored.” ''Lingua Franca''
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  • *[[Lingua franca]]
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  • ...age, although there is a Dari-speaking minority. Dari is, however, the ''[[lingua franca]]'' of Afghanistan. Many Pashtuns of Balochistan speak Brahui, a Dravidian
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  • ...is something every German citizen soon learns as a child. It also is a ''lingua franca'' in much of Europe. Its speakers represent their nation as full participa
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  • *[[Lingua franca]]
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  • ...guage of learning and the church in the Middle Ages and also served as a ''lingua franca'' in international diplomacy and trade. It is certain that many words of co
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  • A [[lingua franca]] in Europe in the 17th and 18th centuries, its international role then dec
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  • ...pread adoption of ''eXtensible Markup Language'' ([[XML]]) as a kind of [[lingua franca]] for transferring information between computers. XML is a standardized wa
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  • ...m Language (Mathematica), scientists were discovering a cross-disciplinary lingua franca they could all develop in common.
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  • ...rcial position of Athens. Attic formed the basis of a ''[[koiné]]'' or ''[[lingua franca]]'', that is, a mixture of several dialects to facilitate communication bet
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  • ...dily than they would understand each other's. One can argue that such a [[lingua franca]], if needed, will evolve by itself, but the desire to formulate and define
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  • ...th America (186 million, over 51% of the population). It is also a major [[lingua franca]] in Africa. It spread worldwide in the 15th and 16th century as Portugal s ...live in Brazil, in South America). By the 16th century it had become a ''[[lingua franca]]'' in Asia and Africa, used not only for colonial administration and trade
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  • ...) in [[Aramaic]] (Jesus' native language). [[Koine Greek|Greek]] being the lingua franca of the Roman Empire as well as early Christianity, ''Yeshua'' came to be re
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  • [[nepali language|Nepali]] is the official language and the major lingua franca. However, many other languages are spoken in the country. For the majority
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  • ...nguage|English]] and [[Russian language|Russian]], have all taken turns as lingua franca, or universal language of Europe at different times. Currently, a sizable p
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  • ...[[Spanish language|Spanish]] or [[Portuguese language|Portuguese]] was a [[lingua franca]] that enabled Sephardim from different countries to engage in commerce and
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  • ...being a major English-speaking nation whose language acts as a common ''[[lingua franca]]'' for millions worldwide.
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  • ...atoms, and published an article in [[German language|German]] (then the [[lingua franca]] of physics) which described Bose's model and explained its implications.
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  • ...accepted that the [[English language]] is now the [[world]]'s unofficial [[lingua franca]],<ref>[http://www.theglobalist.com/DBWeb/StoryId.aspx?StoryId=3229 English
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