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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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    Mohegan–Pequot (†) 19. Quiripi-Naugatuck-Unquachog (†) 20. Mohican (†) Lenape 21. Munsee (nearly extinct) 22. Unami (†) 23. Nanticoke–Piscataway (†) 24. Carolina...
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    ISBN 0-921064-14-4 Toulouse, Isadore. Kidwenan, An Ojibwe Language Book. Munsee-Delaware Nation, ON: Anishinaabe Kendaaswin Pub, 1995. ISBN 1-896027-16-4...
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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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    Acquackanonk Raritan, Tappan, and Hackensack Native American tribes. The Munsee lived in the colony's northwestern reaches, the Highlands, while the Wappinger...
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    These groups had the most frequent contact with the New Netherlanders. The Munsee inhabited the Highlands, Hudson Valley, and northern New Jersey, while the...
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    [citation needed] From "HANDS" and "TO TALK TO," Hand Talk was used as a lingua franca across linguistic and national boundaries across the continent and...
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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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    French language (category Lingua francas)
    which French became so dominant in the Mediterranean Sea that became a lingua franca ("Frankish language"), and because of increased contact with the...
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    represents /k/; dingua is an Old Latin form of the word later attested as lingua ("tongue"). Beekes 1995, p. 128. Sag 1974, p. 591; Janda 1989. The asterisk...
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  • Eung-Do (November 1993). "Chilcotin Flattening and Autosegmental Phonology". Lingua. 91 (2–3): 149–174. doi:10.1016/0024-3841(93)90011-K. Cook, Eung-Do; Rice...
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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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    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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    Massachusett language (category Articles containing Munsee-language text)
    Costa, D. J. (2007). pp. 84–88 Munsee Language Resources. (2013). Retrieved from http://www.native-languages.org/munsee.htm Conthan, L. (2006). Arapaho-English...
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  • Lisse: Peter de Ridder. Nater, Hank F. (1979). "Bella Coola Phonology". Lingua. 49 (2–3): 169–187. doi:10.1016/0024-3841(79)90022-6. Nater, Hank F. (1984)...
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    ISBN 0-910746-98-2 (Hope Farm Press, 3rd ed, 2001) Otto, Paul, 91 The Dutch-Munsee Encounter in America: The Struggle for Sovereignty in the Hudson Valley...
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    identity and solidarity. These dialects are observed to have developed a lingua franca due to the contact between English and Indigenous populations, and...
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    categories noun-verb and transitive-intransitive in English and Squamish, Lingua 21: 610–626. Kuipers, Aert H. (1969). The Squamish Language. Part II. The...
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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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  • standards. With the exception of Massachusett, which was adopted as the lingua franca of Christian Indian proselytes and survives in hundreds of manuscripts...
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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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  • the west); and the Canarsee and Rockaway (on western Long Island). The Munsee inhabited the Highlands and western Hudson Valley. The Susquehannock, who...
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    ISBN 0-415-20297-3. Harvey, Christopher (February 22, 2008). "Onödowága – Seneca". The LinguaSphere Online. Retrieved June 27, 2008. Holmer 1952, p. 217. Chafe 1960,...
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