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    Latin (redirect from Lingua latina)
    Latin (lingua Latina, pronounced [ˈlɪŋɡʷa ɫaˈtiːna], or Latinum [ɫaˈtiːnʊ̃]) is a classical language belonging to the Italic branch of the Indo-European...
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    Portuguese (endonym: português or língua portuguesa) is a Western Romance language of the Indo-European language family originating from the Iberian Peninsula...
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  • the Romani people. The largest of these are Vlax Romani (about 500,000 speakers), Balkan Romani (600,000), and Sinte Romani (300,000). Some Romani communities...
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    serves as one of the lingua francas of Suriname, alongside Dutch. Other non-indigenous languages spoken include Arabic, Chinese, Romani, Haitian Creole, Romanian...
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    sarda, Logudorese: [ˈlimba ˈzaɾda] Sardinian: [ˈlimba ˈzaɾða] (Nuorese), or lìngua sarda, Campidanese: [ˈliŋɡwa ˈzaɾda]) is a Romance language spoken by the...
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    its language may become a lingua franca among nations that speak their own national languages. Europe has had no lingua franca ranging over its entire...
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    Hindi-Bihari lingua-franca that developed among Indo-Fijians. Haflong Hindi is a trade language of the areas adjacent to Haflong in Assam Domari and Romani are...
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  • Welsh and Irish showfamilies. It is a mixture of Mediterranean Lingua Franca, Romani, Yiddish, Cant London slang and backslang. The language has been...
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  • sobre a cooficialização da língua do "talian", à língua portuguesa, no município de Nova Roma do Sul" O Talian agora é a língua co-oficial de Nova Roma do...
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    the northern region of Italy around Trento) – "[...] [la lingua] italiana [...] è la lingua ufficiale dello Stato." (Statuto Speciale per il Trentino-Alto...
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  • Borgarmålet Nefamese Arunachali Hindi Bombay Hindi Haflong Hindi Lingua Franca/Mediterranean Lingua Franca (Sabir, Petit Mauresque or Little Moorish) was spoken...
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    Hindi (category Lingua francas)
    script. It is the official language of India alongside English and the lingua franca of North India. Hindi is considered a Sanskritised register of Hindustani...
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    are Indo-European. One of these languages, English, is the de facto world lingua franca, with an estimate of over one billion second language speakers. Indo-European...
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    Pombal prohibited the use of Língua Geral or any other indigenous language in Brazil. However, as late as the 1940s, Língua Geral was widely spoken in some...
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    language played an important role as a commercial language, serving as the lingua franca of the Hanseatic league. As such, Low German influenced Swedish and...
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    distinguished for learning as no other man had ever been or was to be. De lingua latina libri XXV (or On the Latin Language in 25 Books, of which six books...
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    The languages of Austria include German, the official language and lingua franca; Austro-Bavarian, the main dialect outside Vorarlberg; Alemannic, the...
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    original (PDF) on 2016-01-06. "Portugueses falam cada vez mais (e melhor) línguas estrangeiras". dn.pt. Archived from the original on 2 December 2024. Retrieved...
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    Chota Nagpur plateau. In addition to native speakers, it is also used as a lingua franca by many tribal groups such as the Kurukh, a Dravidian ethnic group...
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    development of Urdu literature during the late-Mughal period. Deccani arose as a lingua franca under the Delhi and Bahmani Sultanates, as trade and migration from...
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    Kipchak: once spoken in Eastern Europe which includes Hungary. It was the lingua franca of the Golden Horde-controlled areas. It is the ancestor of all Kipchak...
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    Portuguesa, Observatório da Língua (31 July 2021). "A língua mirandesa é língua oficial em Portugal desde 1999". Observatório da Língua Portuguesa (in European...
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  • January 2013. "Situación da lingua galega na sociedade. Observación no ámbito da cidadanía 2007" (PDF). Observatorio da Lingua Galega/Xunta de Galicia. Archived...
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  • hodierni quicunque lingua Valacha loquuntur se ipsos non dicunt Vlahos aut Valachos sed Rumenos et a Romanis ortos gloriantur Romanaque lingua loqui profitentur"...
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  • Roman Tales (redirect from Racconti romani)
    "Roma e i "Racconti romani" di Moravia", Studi romani, 6:5 (1958:sett./ott.) p. 547-561 Lauta, Gianluca. La scrittura di Moravia: lingua e stile dagli Indifferenti...
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    left a rich literary inheritance. The language became the main language (lingua franca) of the Golden Horde. The Cumans were nomadic people who lived on...
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    became very popular, especially amongst common people, functioning as a lingua franca throughout the north of the Indian subcontinent. Abahatta, which...
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    Hindustani language (category Lingua francas)
    Indo-Aryan language spoken in North India and Pakistan, and functioning as the lingua franca of the region. It is also spoken by the Deccani people. Hindustani...
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    Urdu (category Lingua francas)
    language spoken chiefly in South Asia. It is the national language and lingua franca of Pakistan. In India, it is an Eighth Schedule language, the status...
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  • studied by the linguist Michael Halliday, who used the term to describe the lingua franca of an anti-society. An anti-society is a small, separate community...
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