• A lingua franca (/ˌlɪŋɡwə ˈfræŋkə/; lit. 'Frankish tongue'; for plurals see § Usage notes), also known as a bridge language, common language, trade language...
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    Italian (italiano, Italian: [itaˈljaːno] , or lingua italiana, Italian: [ˈliŋɡwa itaˈljaːna]) is a Romance language of the Indo-European language family...
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    Latin (redirect from Lingua latina)
    Latin (lingua Latina, Latin: [ˈlɪŋɡʷa ɫaˈtiːna], or Latinum, Latin: [ɫaˈtiːnʊ̃]) is a classical language belonging to the Italic branch of the Indo-European...
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    the use of Standard Chinese, which is the primary lingua franca of more recent Chinese immigrants, is rapidly increasing. While Standard Chinese was...
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    Portuguese (endonym: português or, in full, língua portuguesa) is a Western Romance language of the Indo-European language family originating from the...
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    Langone, Angela D.; Mion, Giuliano (2010), Corso di Arabo Contemporaneo. Lingua Standard (in Italian), Milan: Hoepli, ISBN 978-88-203-4552-5 Gregersen, Edgar...
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  • English as a lingua franca (ELF) is the use of the English language "as a global means of inter-community communication" and can be understood as "any...
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    Arabic (category Lingua francas)
    Langone, Angela D.; Mion, Giuliano (2010), Corso di Arabo Contemporaneo. Lingua Standard (in Italian), Milan: Hoepli, ISBN 978-88-203-4552-5 Gregersen, Edgar...
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  • 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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  • its publications were standard-setting. Monolingual Alberto Accarisio: Vocabolario et grammatica con l'orthographia della lingua volgare, 1543 Francesco...
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    population and where English has become the lingua franca of commerce, media, and education. Content in Modern Standard Arabic is also under-represented online...
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    sardu, Sardinian: [ˈsaɾdu], limba sarda, Sardinian: [ˈlimba ˈzaɾda], or lìngua sarda, Sardinian: [ˈliŋɡwa ˈzaɾda]) is a Romance language spoken by the...
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  • listing". World Spider Catalog. Retrieved 2013-12-31. "ITIS Standard Report Page: Agelena lingua". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 2013-12-31...
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    Pan-Romance language (category Articles containing Lingua Franca Nova-language text)
    spoke of a "Hochromanisch" (in reference to Hochdeutsch, the standard variety of German). Lingua Romana is an artistic language which the German poet Stefan...
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  • internets to function. As the Internet became global, Internet Standards became the lingua franca of worldwide communications. Engineering contributions...
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    Hindi (redirect from Standard Hindi)
    script. It is the official language of India alongside English and the lingua franca of North India. Hindi is considered a Sanskritised register of the...
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    Corsican (endonym: corsu [ˈkorsu], [ˈkɔrsu]; full name: lingua corsa [ˈliŋɡwa ˈɡorsa], [ˈliŋɡwa ˈɡɔrsa]) is a Romance language consisting of the continuum...
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  • 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...
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    Urdu (redirect from Standard Urdu)
    language spoken chiefly in South Asia. It is the national language and lingua franca of Pakistan, where it is also an official language alongside English...
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  • Written vernacular Chinese, the standard for written Chinese Mandarin (late imperial lingua franca), the spoken standard of the Ming and Qing dynasties...
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  • "Storia della lingua". Istituto della Enciclopedia italiana. Retrieved 10 October 2015. Curzan, Anne (2002). "Teaching the Politics of Standard English"....
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  • Macau, as well as in overseas communities. In mainland China, it is the lingua franca of the Chinese province of Guangdong (being the majority language...
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    national language (Wikang pambansa / Pambansang wika) of the Philippines, lingua franca (Karaniwang wika), and one of the two official languages (Wikang...
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  • implicitly seen as standard. It is certainly also commonly used in connection with the acquisition, use, and study of English as the world's lingua franca ('TEIL:...
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    provide a Croatian literary standard began on the basis of the Neo-Shtokavian dialect that served as a supraregional lingua franca – pushing back regional...
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    of Portuguese Language Countries (Portuguese: Comunidade dos Países de Língua Portuguesa; abbr. : CPLP), also known as the Lusophone Community (Portuguese:...
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    da Lingua Galega (in Galician) Academia Galega da Língua Portuguesa (reintegrationist Galician) Associaçom Galega da Língua – Portal Galego da Língua (reintegrationist...
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    sulla lingua albanese. Livorno: Successore di Egisto Vignozzi. Camarda, Demetrio (1866). Appendice al saggio di grammatologia comparata sulla lingua albanese...
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    language, the lingua franca of Northern India that is the basis of the Modern Standard Hindi and Modern Standard Urdu literary standards. In regards to...
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    et de la mer, a description Monégasque sea jargon. The modern spelling standard has had some adjustments, but remains close to the system imagined by Louis...
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