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    Champa (redirect from Chăm Pa)
    Champa (Cham: ꨌꩌꨛꨩ, چامفا; Khmer: ចាម្ប៉ា; Vietnamese: Chiêm Thành 占城 or Chiêm Bá 占婆) was a collection of independent Cham polities that extended across...
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    Malay language (category Lingua francas)
    language") is designated the bahasa persatuan/pemersatu ("unifying language" or lingua franca) whereas the term "Malay" (bahasa Melayu) is domestically restricted...
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  • sobre a cooficialização da língua do "talian", à língua portuguesa, no município de Nova Roma do Sul" O Talian agora é a língua co-oficial de Nova Roma do...
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    role in this trade. Many Chams can speak Vietnamese (the national lingua franca), Khmer, Malay, and, of course, their native Cham language. Rather than conforming...
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  • Leonean Creole or Krio is an English-based creole language that is the lingua franca and de facto national language spoken throughout the West African...
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    cities throughout Indonesia by migrated Minangkabau. The language is also a lingua franca along the western coastal region of the province of North Sumatra...
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    standardized variety of Malay, an Austronesian language that has been used as a lingua franca in the multilingual Indonesian archipelago for centuries. With over...
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    Alphabet. Great Oak Press Chung, Sandra (1974), "Remarks on Pablo Tac's La lingua degli Indi Luiseños", International Journal of American Linguistics, 40...
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    are Indo-European. One of these languages, English, is the de facto world lingua franca, with an estimate of over one billion second language speakers. Indo-European...
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    Bamar speak the Burmese language which serves as the national language and lingua franca of Myanmar. In the Burmese language, Bamar (ဗမာ, also transcribed...
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    inscriptions of Campā at the Museum of Cham sculpture in Đà Nẵng / Văn khắc Chămpa tại bảo tàng điêu khắc Chăm – Đà Nẵng, Vietnam National University...
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  • rivals Cameroonian Pidgin English ("Creole") as the country's most common lingua franca. It is most popular in the high-density urban centres where anglophones...
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    بروني‎), is the most widely spoken language in Brunei Darussalam and a lingua franca in some parts of Sarawak and Sabah, such as Labuan, Limbang, Lawas...
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    Wittgenstein: Half-Truths and One-and-a-Half-Truths ISBN 0-7923-4091-4 1996. Lingua Universalis vs Calculus Ratiocinator ISBN 0-7923-4246-1 1996. The Principles...
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    In Green, Nile (ed.). The Persianate World: The Frontiers of a Eurasian Lingua Franca. University of California Press. pp. 131–158. ISBN 978-0520972100...
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    that Arbëresh people of those areas use Italian or Standard Albanian as lingua franca to communicate with each other. Between the 11th and 14th centuries...
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    found in any Vietnamese dynastic records which all were written in the lingua franca Chữ Hán through.[citation needed] According to Mark Alves, Vietnamese...
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  • Baldi, Benedetta; Savoia, Leonardo M. (2017). "Cultura e identità nella lingua albanese" [Culture and Identity in the Albanian Language]. LEA - Lingue...
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    Wissenschaften., as revised by the author Rix, Helmut (1993). "La scrittura e la lingua". In Cristofani, Mauro (hrsg.) (ed.). Gli etruschi – Una nuova immagine...
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    as they favored English as a way out. Around the mid to late 1960s the lingua franca of Indo-Trinidadian and Tobagonians switched from Trinidadian Hindustani...
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    community. English is commonly used as a second language, and a rising lingua franca, especially in commerce, to the extent that steps are being taken...
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    the Roman Republic (Cornell University Press, 1981), pp. 38–39. Varro, De lingua latina 6.12 (dies deorum causa instituti, as cited by Scullard, p. 39, noting...
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    Riau Malay) is the official language and the main lingua franca. Although Sumatra has its own local lingua franca, variants of Malay like Medan Malay and...
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  • Southeast Sulawesi, Indonesia. It is quite close to Wawonii. It was a local lingua franca before independence. Bungku at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription...
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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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    known as “Bahasa Indonesia” serves as the national language and unifying lingua franca. Religious diversity is also prominent, with Islam being the predominant...
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    In Green, Nile (ed.). The Persianate World: The Frontiers of a Eurasian Lingua Franca. University of California Press.34 Grousset, Rene (1970). The Empire...
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    of Malacca in international trade in the region resulted in Malay as a lingua franca in commerce and diplomacy, a status that it maintained throughout...
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  • Qafár af National Language in:  Eritrea Afrihili – El-Afrihili Proposed lingua franca of Africa Afrikaans – Afrikaans Official language in:  South Africa...
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    Spanish and Arabic on a voluntary, optional basis. Spanish, a widely used lingua franca during the late nineteenth century, has declined greatly in use,...
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