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  1. 2 days ago · English language is a West Germanic language that originated in England and spread to many parts of the world. It is the dominant language of several countries and the most widely used lingua franca. Learn about its history, development, characteristics, and varieties from Britannica, the online encyclopedia that covers a wide range of topics and personalities.

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    4 days ago · Aramaic rose to prominence under the Neo-Assyrian Empire (911–605 BC), under whose influence Aramaic became a prestige language after being adopted as a lingua franca of the empire by Assyrian kings, and its use was spread throughout Mesopotamia, the Levant and parts of Asia Minor, Arabian Peninsula, and Ancient Iran under Assyrian rule.

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  4. 4 days ago · This study examines the phonological, lexical, and syntactic traits of English as a lingua franca (ELF), emphasizing how these traits manifest in international communication settings. It looks into how ELF speakers adjust to differences, negotiate meaning, and use mutually intelligibility techniques. The study demonstrates the flexibility and adaptability of ELF, emphasizing both its influence ...

  5. 4 days ago · They were written in Akkadian, the lingua franca of the time. Most of the Letters recovered detailed correspondence between Northern Kings and the Pharaoh of Egypt.

  6. 3 days ago · During the first millennium BC, Akkadian progressively lost its status as a lingua franca. In the beginning, from around 1000 BC, Akkadian and Aramaic were of equal status, as can be seen in the number of copied texts: clay tablets were written in Akkadian, while scribes writing on papyrus and leather used Aramaic.

  7. 4 days ago · Latin language, Indo-European language in the Italic group and ancestral to the modern Romance languages. Originally spoken by small groups of people living along the lower Tiber River, Latin spread with the increase of Roman political power, first throughout Italy and then throughout most of western and southern Europe and the central and ...

  8. 1 day ago · This article examines multilingual practices as an example of emergent pragmatic conventions in three Transient International Groups (TIGs) using spoken English as a lingua franca (ELF) from the Vienna-Oxford International Corpus of English (VOICE). The analysis combines principles of corpus linguistics and conversation analysis by adopting a new approach for the micro-diachronic analysis of ...

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