Lingua franca
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A lingua franca, also known as a bridge language, common language, trade language, auxiliary language, link language, or language of wider communication, is a language systematically used to make comm
French dictionary printed in 1830 detailing the Mediterranean Lingua Franca
Extent of Middle Low German in red with its use as a literary language black lines tilted right
Mediterranean Lingua Franca
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The Mediterranean Lingua Franca, or Sabir, was a contact language, or languages, that were used as a lingua franca in the Mediterranean basin from the 11th to the 19th centuries. April McMahon describ
Lingua franca
…convenience, and as a means of exchanging information between scientists and other scholars of different nationalities. The term is taken from the medieval Mediterranean Lingua Franca, a Romance-based pidgin language used especially by traders in the Mediterranean Basin from the 11th to the 19th centuries. A world language—a language…
The Mediterranean depicted in the Catalan Atlas (1375)