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Summary Of: Lingua franca

A lingua franca is a language used by people whose mother tongues are different in order to communicate... language could conceivably serve as a lingua franca between two groups... Lingua franca is thus a purely... and therefore whilst the term lingua franca may be applied to such languages... that the language is commonly used as a lingua franca in the sense of communication between speakers of different native languages... Arabic became the lingua franca of these regions not simply because of commerce or diplomacy... lingua franca for 22 countries... Persian served as the lingua franca of the eastern Islamic world and became the second lingua franca of the Islamic World... Persian remains the lingua franca in its native homelands of... and was the lingua franca of India before the British conquest... The Italian language is still used as a lingua franca in some environments... Spanish is used as lingua franca throughout the former Spanish Empire... German was the lingua franca for workers from central and east Europe... influenced version of Lingua Franca with the local languages... Through a process of change the Lingua Franca and Portuguese lexicon was replaced with the languages of the people in contact... as the lingua franca of diplomacy since... But the establishment of English as an international lingua franca after World War II was mostly a result of the spread of English via cultural... fade as Swahili transitions from being a regional lingua franca to a regional... but is also used as a lingua franca by several populations of various origin... is a lingua franca developed for intertribal trading in the... Wolof is a more widely spoken lingua franca of The Gambia and Senegal... Tupi as Lingua Franca was quickly replaced by Portuguese... this Lingua Franca is also spoken in the Solomon Islands and Vanuatu... The Lingua Franca in the Levant...

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