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    external influences, Tamil has retained a sense of linguistic purism, especially in formal and literary contexts. Tamil was the lingua franca for early maritime...
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    decreolization of the língua brasílica and the related língua geral paulista, then spoken in almost all of what is now São Paulo, a former lingua franca in most...
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  • 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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  • da UFRJ sobre a cooficialização de línguas no Brasil Município de Itarana participa de ações do Inventário da Língua Pomerana, Prefeitura Municipal de...
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  • 11 June 2015. Retrieved 10 June 2015. "Abá nhe'enga oîebyr – Tradução: a língua dos índios está de volta", by Suzel Tunes essay in Portuguese. Matthee,...
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    Sri Lankan Tamils (Tamil: இலங்கை தமிழர், ilankai tamiḻar or ஈழத் தமிழர், īḻat tamiḻar), also known as Ceylon Tamils or Eelam Tamils, are Tamils native to...
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  • Lingua Malabar Tamul or simply Malabar Tamil is a variant of the Tamil language promoted by European Missionaries in southern parts of Kerala state like...
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    Thambiran Vanakkam (also known as Doctrina Christam en Lingua Malauar Tamul in Portuguese; Tamil: தம்பிரான் வணக்கம்) is a Catholic catechism translated...
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    of the language. John Guy states that Tamil was the lingua franca for early maritime traders from India. Tamil began to trade with Greece, Rome, Egypt...
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  • português língua estrangeira (Level B1) DIPLE - Diploma intermédio de português língua estrangeira (Level B2) DAPLE - Diploma avançado de português língua estrangeira...
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  • a lingua franca in the Eastern Roman Empire, remains in use today as a sacred language in some Eastern Orthodox churches. Latin became the lingua franca...
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  • Much of Tamil grammar is extensively described in the oldest available grammar book for Tamil, the Tolkāppiyam (dated between 300 BCE and 300 CE). Modern...
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  • then its position as a lingua franca was replaced by a Malay-based creole languages. Andaman Creole Hindi, a Hindi-Bengali-Tamil-based creole language...
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  • the early 1900s, Brahmin Tamil was used as the lingua-franca for inter-caste communication. The principal characters in the Tamil films of the period (1930s...
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    "第455/91號法令". 澳門特別行政區印務局. 1992. A língua chinesa tem em Macau estatuto oficial e a mesma força legal que a língua portuguesa. Macau Basic Law (1993)...
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  • Retrieved 22 September 2019. "A curvatura das aspas". Ciberdúvidas da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese). Archived from the original on 9 December 2016...
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    The languages of Singapore are English, Chinese, Malay and Tamil, with the lingua franca between Singaporeans being English, the de facto main language...
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    2019-01-21 Autuori, Joana Dworecka (2019). Fonologia e morfossintaxe da língua Sanöma (Yanomami) (PhD) (in Brazilian Portuguese). University of São Paulo...
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    focused on producing films in a specific language, such as Hindi, Telugu, Tamil, Kannada, Malayalam, Marathi, Bengali, Punjabi, Bhojpuri and others. Major...
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    English among the educated urban Malayalees and the domination of Tamil, as a lingua franca of the Malaysian Indians. Today, there are roughly more than...
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  • served as lingua francas that have sometimes approached the international level. Latin, Greek, Sanskrit, Persian, Tamil, and the Mediterranean Lingua Franca...
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  • Sanskrit (long after its use as a spoken language) or in Tamil in Tamil country. Sanskrit was a lingua franca among the non-Indo-European languages of the...
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  • language survives as a lingua franca amongst migrating fishermen across the island. It is estimated that the Negombo dialect of Tamil language is spoken by...
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    largest number of first-language speakers in India today, serves as the lingua franca across much of northern and central India. However, there have been...
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    status, despite not being a scheduled language. Nepali, despite being the lingua franca of Sikkim as well as a scheduled language, isn't the official language...
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    demands to have Hindi as the sole lingua franca language, where Tamil and English are the two main languages of Tamil Nadu. The party provided ₹1 lakh...
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    Africa". Ethnologue. Retrieved 4 September 2022. "A Comunidade dos Países de Língua Portuguesa, com Jorge Couto" [The Community of Portuguese-Speaking Countries...
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  • Horbachova Oleksiy Kurban United Kingdom Big Brother Channel 4 S4C (1–10) TVN Lingua (2–4) Series 1, 2000: Craig Phillips Series 2, 2001: Brian Dowling Series...
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  • Asia Archipelago as far as the Philippines. That contact resulted in a lingua franca ("trade language") that was called Bazaar Malay or low Malay and...
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  • incorporating words from Malay, Hokkien, Spanish, Nahuatl, English, Sanskrit, Tamil, Japanese, Arabic, Persian, and Quechua. The Filipino language incorporated...
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