Any language regularly used for communication between people who do not share a native language is a lingua … See more

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 o… See more

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 fran… See more

The use of lingua francas has existed since antiquity.
Akkadian, followed by Aramaic remained the common languages of a large part of Western Asia from several earlier empires.
Sanskrit historically … See more

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• 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.… See more

• "English – the universal language on the Internet?".
• "Lingua franca del Mediterraneo o Sabir of professor Francesco Bruni" (in Italian). Archived from the original on 28 March 2009.… See more