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The other five languages are used by provincial administration and by selected city or municipal administrations. In practice, Serbian is a lingua franca of the region and number of declared native speakers of Serbian in the province exceeds the number of declared ethnic Serbs. Among other languages, Hungarian and Slovak are dominant in several ...
A lingua franca is a language systematically used to make communication possible between people not sharing a first language, in particular when it is a third language, distinct from both speakers' first languages. Examples of lingua francas are numerous and exist on every continent. The most utilized modern example is English, which is the ...
A lingua franca (/ ˌ l ɪ ŋ ɡ w ə ˈ f r æ ŋ k ə /; lit. ' Frankish tongue '; for plurals see § Usage notes), also known as a bridge language, common language, trade language, auxiliary language, vehicular language, or link language, is a language systematically used to make communication possible between groups of people who do not share a native language or dialect, particularly when ...
Jun 15, 2020 · A lingua franca is a language that you consciously learn because you need to, because you want to. A mother tongue is a language that you learn because you can't help it. The reason English is spreading around the world at the moment is because of its utility as a lingua franca. Globish —a simplified version of English that's used around the ...
- Richard Nordquist
Jan 1, 2020 · Abstract. This chapter lays out the background to Lingua Franca with a description of its key features and the etymology of the term. It identifies and provides relevant ethnographic detail of the regions where it was purported to be spoken. It introduces the principal arguments of the monograph regarding the distinction between documentary and ...
- Joanna Nolan
- jn24@soas.ac.uk
- 2020
Dec 20, 2023 · The original lingua franca. Today, lingua franca is a term that can indicate many different languages—but it started as the name of an actual language spoken in the Mediterranean basin from the 11th to 18th centuries. Lingua comes from the Italian (and Latin) word for "tongue" or "language," and franca referred to
the West's new lingua franca. But it was a different kind of lingua franca, less plebeian by far than Koine, and less regnant than Latin. A literary lingua franca, less widely known than its forerunner. In other parts of the world too lingua francas have been or are now used by millions of people. The more important ones are here classified
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