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Gjuha frënge ose frëngjishtja (frëngjisht le français /lə fʁɑ̃.sɛ/) është një gjuhë indo-evropiane e familjes së gjuhëve romane. Ajo është një gjuhë e folur nga 274 milion folës. Ajo është gjuhë zyrtare në 29 vende si: Franca, Madagaskari, Kameruni, etj. Kjo gjuhë shquhet për delikatesën dhe ëmbëlsinë me të cilën ...
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France, [a] officially the French Republic, [b] is a country located primarily in Western Europe. It also includes overseas regions and territories in the Americas and the Atlantic, Pacific and Indian oceans, [XII] giving it one of the largest discontiguous exclusive economic zones in the world.
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French of France ( French: français de France) is the predominant variety of the French language in France, Andorra and Monaco, in its formal and informal registers. It has, for a long time, been associated with Standard French. It is now seen as a variety of French alongside Acadian French, Belgian French, Quebec French, Swiss French, etc. [2]
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Any language regularly used for communication between people who do not share a native language is a lingua franca.Lingua franca is a functional term, independent of any linguistic history or language structure. Pidgins are therefore lingua francas; creoles and arguably mixed languages may similarly be used for communication between language groups...
The term lingua franca derives from Mediterranean Lingua Franca (also known as Sabir), the pidgin language that people around the Levant and the eastern Mediterranean Sea used as the main language of commerce and diplomacy from the late Middle Ages to the 18th century, most notably during the Renaissance era.During that period, a simplified version...
The term is well established in its naturalization to English and so major dictionaries do not italicize it as a "foreign" term. Its plurals in English are lingua francas and linguae francae, with the former being first-listed or only-listedin major dictionaries.
Historical lingua francas
The use of lingua francas has existed since antiquity. Akkadian, followed by Aramaicremained the common languages of a large part of Western Asia from several earlier empires. Sanskrit historically served as a lingua franca throughout the majority of South Asia.The Sanskrit language's historic presence is attested across a wide geography beyond South Asia. Inscriptions and literary evidence suggest that Sanskrit was already being adopted in Southeast Asia and Central Asia in the 1st millenniu...
Hall, R.A. Jr. (1966). Pidgin and Creole Languages. Cornell University Press. ISBN 0-8014-0173-9.Heine, Bernd (1970). Status and Use of African Lingua Francas. BRILL. ISBN 3-8039-0033-6.Kahane, Henry Romanos (1958). The Lingua Franca in the Levant.Melatti, Julio Cezar (1983). Índios do Brasil(48 ed.). São Paulo: Hucitec Press."Lingua franca del Mediterraneo o Sabir of professor Francesco Bruni" (in Italian). Archived from the originalon 28 March 2009."Sample texts". Archived from the original on 9 April 2009. from Juan del Encina, Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme, Carlo Goldoni's L'Impresario da Smyrna, Diego de Haedo and other sources"An introduction to the original Mediterranean Lingua Franca". Archived from the originalon 8 April 2010.French is an official language in 27 countries and is spoken across all continents. [2] French is also one of the most geographically widespread languages in the world, with about 50 countries and territories having it as a de jure or de facto official, administrative, or cultural language. [3]
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The French Wikipedia ( French: Wikipédia en français) is the French-language edition of Wikipedia, the free online encyclopedia. This edition was started on 23 March 2001, two months after the official creation of Wikipedia. [1] It has 2,610,268 articles as of 8 May 2024, making it the fourth-largest Wikipedia overall, after the English ...
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.
