• This is a list of lingua francas. A lingua franca is a language systematically used to make communication possible between people not sharing a first language...
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    eastern Canada) Delaware Jargon Pidgin Massachusett Jargonized Powhatan Lingua Franca Creek Lingua Franca Apalachee Mobilian Jargon Güegüence-Nicarao (formerly...
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    Jargonized Powhatan Keresan Sign Language Labrador Eskimo Pidgin (also known as Labrador Inuit Pidgin) Lingua Franca Apalachee Lingua Franca Creek Lingua Geral...
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    Unami (†) 23. Nanticoke–Piscataway (†) 24. Carolina Algonquian (†) 25. Powhatan (†) 26. Etchemin (†) (uncertain – See Eastern Algonquian languages) 27...
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    was named Mahaskahod. Smith also noted that they were at war with the Powhatan and Haudenosaunee but were allied with the Monacan. As the Beaver Wars...
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    Southeast Asia. ASL is also widely learned as a second language, serving as a lingua franca. ASL is most closely related to French Sign Language (LSF). It has...
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    1960s Classical Náhuatl Nahuatl Uto-Aztecan late 16th century used as the lingua franca of the Aztec Empire until its collapse Mamulique Pakawan 19th century...
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  • Merriam–Webster Online Dictionary Ferreira, A. B. H. (1986). Novo Dicionário da Língua Portuguesa (2nd ed.). Rio de Janeiro: Nova Fronteira. p. 19. "acai". Oxford...
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  • including Yiddish, Ladino, and Judeo-Arabic. In addition, English serves as the lingua franca of Israel. Though many Jewish languages are not genetically related...
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    their mostly English vocabulary with some loan words. Furthermore, it is a lingua franca among American Jews (particularly Hasidic Jewry), concentrated in...
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  • set up by the Cholulan people. Similarly, Pocahontas, or Amonute, was a Powhatan noble who lived in Tidewater Virginia, when she was captured by English...
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    was being used as a secondary dialect and replacing Cantonese as their lingua franca. Chinese Americans teach their children Chinese for a variety of...
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    future where Latin Americans have colonized the galaxy and Spanglish is the lingua franca among the galaxy's sentient species. H. G. Wells's future history...
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    were descended from a party sent by Chief Opechancanough, ruler of the Powhatan Confederacy of 1618–1644, to settle in the Shenandoah Valley. The party...
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    States and northern Mexico. This sign language was used historically as a lingua franca, notably for trading among tribes; it is still used for story-telling...
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  • 9780936347356, p. 269. "francoveneto" (in Italian). Zanichelli DizionariPiù: La lingua, il sapere, la cultura. 27 October 2024. Retrieved 24 October 2024. Kane...
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    Nanticokan languages of the Chesapeake Bay and Potomac River watershed, the Powhatan languages of coastal Virginia and the Carolina Algonquian languages of...
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    international auxiliary language), formerly a trade pidgin, that was once the lingua franca across central Canada, central and western United States and northern...
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  • in its vocabulary. There is some evidence for a Chinookan-Nuu-chah-nulth lingua franca in the writings of John Jewitt and in what is known as the Barclay...
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    of Arizona Press. Rountree, Helen C. (1996). Pocahontas's People: The Powhatan Indians of Virginia Through Four Centuries. University of Oklahoma Press...
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  • Pitcairn-Norfolk 皮特凯恩-诺福克语 (pii) I/L Pini pij I/E Pijao pil I/L Yom pim I/E Powhatan powhatan pin I/L Piame pio I/L Piapoco pip I/L Pero pir I/L Piratapuyo piratapuyo...
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    neutre." They traded deer hides and byproducts to as far south as the Powhatan chiefdom on Chesapeake Bay for the prized Snow Whelk (Buccinidae) marine...
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