linguistic purism, especially in formal and literary contexts. Tamil was the lingua franca for early maritime traders, with inscriptions found in places like...

Kannada, Tulu, Gondi, and Kodava), were brought from South India. By this time Fiji Hindi was well established as the lingua franca of Indo-Fijians and...

122 have more than 10,000 native speakers. There are a few languages like Kodava that do not have a script but have a group of native speakers in Coorg (Kodagu)...

culture as another major influence. In the early 20th century, Urdu was the lingua franca of popular performances across northern India, established in performance...

Golconda) Kodagu: (History. Kodavas captivity. Kingdom of Coorg. Coorg State. Coorg War) People Kannadigas Tuluvas Kodavas Konkani Veerashaiva Kota Brahmins...

all were ethnic-Madrasis, some were Telugu, Kannadiga, Malayali, Gondi, Kodava, Tulu, or Deccani, and most Indians who left from the Port of Calcutta were...

including Yiddish, Ladino, and Judeo-Arabic. In addition, English serves as the lingua franca of Israel. Though many Jewish languages are not genetically related...

Kannadigas Kodavas Kovains Malabaris Malayalis Mappilas Syrian Malabar Nasranis Tamils Telugu people Tulu people Languages Beary bashe Dakhini Kannada Kodava Konkani...

collectively, is based mostly on Bhojpuri and Awadhi, and it became the lingua franca of the early Indians. Also, since they formed the largest group of...

Karshon". The Harp. XV. Perczel, István (2009). "Classical Syriac as a Modern Lingua Francain South India between 1600 and 2006". ARAM. 21: 289–321. doi:10.2143/ARAM...