Lingua Franca Nova (pronounced [ˈliŋgwa ˈfraŋka ˈnova]), abbreviated as LFN and known colloquially as Elefen, is a constructed international auxiliary...

sarda, Logudorese: [ˈlimba ˈzaɾda] Sardinian: [ˈlimba ˈzaɾða] (Nuorese), or lìngua sarda, Campidanese: [ˈliŋɡwa ˈzaɾda]) is a Romance language spoken by the...

Hokkien's prominent role as a lingua franca previously among the Singaporean Chinese community. Teochew is a Southern Min language. As with other Sinitic...

being brought in as a lingua franca. The Mandarin-speaking groups are the largest group in mainland China, but in the diaspora the Min, Hakka and Cantonese...

across China. Mandarin Chinese is the most popular dialect, and is used as a lingua franca across China. Linguists classify these varieties as the Sinitic branch...

"Pange lingua gloriosi proelium certaminis" (Latin for 'Sing, tongue, the battle of glorious combat') is a 6th-century AD Latin hymn generally credited...

客家話 Min Chinese, 闽语, 閩語 Southern Min, 闽南语, 閩南語 Hokkien, 泉漳话, 泉漳話 Teochew Min, 潮州话, 潮州話 Hainanese, 海南话, 海南話 Leizhou Min, 雷州话, 雷州話 Hai Lok Hong Min, 海陆丰话...

The Min River (Chinese: 岷江; pinyin: Mínjiāng) is a 735-kilometer-long river (457 mi) in central Sichuan province, China. It is a tributary of the upper...

constructed language. The concept is related to but separate from the idea of a lingua franca (or dominant language) that people must use to communicate. The study...

languages, regional lingua francas, foreign and additional languages, heritage languages, languages in the religious domain, English as a lingua franca, and sign...

dynasties, the term "Qiang" denoted only non-Han people living in the upper Min River Valley and Beichuan area, the area now occupied by the modern Qiang...

Proto-Min (pMǐn) is a comparative reconstruction of the common ancestor of the Min group of varieties of Chinese. Min varieties developed in the relative...

and that Cantonese is generally viewed as the lingua franca of Guangdong. List of Chinese dialects Min is believed to have split from Old Chinese, rather...

its study. They translated the term Guānhuà into European languages as língua mandarim (Portuguese) and la lengua mandarina (Spanish), meaning the language...

cities throughout Indonesia by migrated Minangkabau. The language is also a lingua franca along the western coastal region of the province of North Sumatra...

identity. In maritime Southeast Asia, Hokkien historically served as the lingua franca amongst overseas Chinese communities of all dialects and subgroups...

language") is designated the bahasa persatuan/pemersatu ("unifying language" or lingua franca) whereas the term "Malay" (bahasa Melayu) is domestically restricted...

The varieties are typically classified into several groups: Mandarin, Wu, Min, Xiang, Gan, Jin, Hakka and Yue, though some varieties remain unclassified...

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predicted to replace Cantonese as their lingua franca. Although Min Chinese or Fuzhounese, the majority of Min Chinese, is spoken natively by a third of...

estimates the ten most spoken languages (L1 + L2) in 2022 as follows: Lingua franca Lists of languages List of languages by number of native speakers...

Chinese Filipinos in the Philippines, where it serves as the local Chinese lingua franca within the overseas Chinese community in the Philippines and acts...

used as a lingua franca. "Mandarin" is a translation of Guanhua (官話; 官话; 'bureaucrat speech'), which referred to the late imperial lingua franca. The...

reference to the Maltese language is in a will of 1436, where it is called lingua maltensi. The oldest known document in Maltese, Il-Kantilena (Xidew il-Qada)...

Mandarin with 66%, or around 800 million speakers, followed by Min (75 million, e.g. Southern Min), Wu (74 million, e.g. Shanghainese), and Yue (68 million...

these dialects very influential. Some form of Mandarin has served as a lingua franca for government officials and the courts since the 14th century. In...

adopted a common working language in English." Hokkien (Min Nan) briefly emerged as a lingua franca among the Chinese, but by the late 20th century it...

Washington, D.C. 20540 USA. School, Live Lingua-Online Language. "FSI More(Mossi) Basic Language Course :". Live Lingua. Cf. Kabore (1985) : (p.44) for the...

as well as in overseas communities. In mainland China, Cantonese is the lingua franca of the Chinese province of Guangdong (being the majority language...

are also incorporated into contemporary Morisien. Mauritian Creole is the lingua franca of the Republic of Mauritius, which gained independence from the...