external influences, Tamil has retained a sense of linguistic purism, especially in formal and literary contexts. Tamil was the lingua franca for early maritime...

A lingua franca (/ˌlɪŋɡwə ˈfræŋkə/; lit. 'Frankish tongue'; for plurals see § Usage notes), also known as a bridge language, common language, trade language...

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...

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...

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...

Portuguese (endonym: português or língua portuguesa) is a Western Romance language of the Indo-European language family originating from the Iberian Peninsula...

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...

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...

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...

languages are spoken on the Andaman Islands. Historically, Sanskrit was the lingua franca of South Asia. In the Indo-Muslim period, Persian became a connecting...

The languages of Singapore are English, Chinese, Malay and Tamil, with the lingua franca between Singaporeans being English, the de facto main language...

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...

focused on producing films in a specific language, such as Hindi, Telugu, Tamil, Kannada, Malayalam, Marathi, Bengali, Punjabi, Bhojpuri, Assamese and others...

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...

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...

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

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...

served as lingua francas that have sometimes approached the international level. Latin, Greek, Sanskrit, Persian, Tamil, and the Mediterranean Lingua Franca...

Thambiran Vanakkam (also known as Doctrina Christam en Lingua Malauar Tamul in Portuguese; Tamil: தம்பிரான் வணக்கம்) is a Catholic catechism translated...

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...

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...

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...

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

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...

Retrieved 4 May 2017. Menon, Radhika (2003). Line and circle. London: Mantra Lingua. ISBN 9781844440191. "காலத்தின் திரைச்சீலை- ஓவியர் மருது நினைவலைகள் விழா...

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...

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...

official languages of the National Assembly (parliament) only. While the lingua franca is Mauritian Creole, French is spoken by a majority of Mauritians...

Indo-Aryan language spoken in North India and Pakistan, and functioning as the lingua franca of the region. It is also spoken by the Deccani people. Hindustani...

English news functions for the nation's multiracial population whose dominant lingua franca or first language is the latter. It also offers some in-house, local...