Search results for "Lingua franca" - New World Encyclopedia
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- 1980):55-63. The Padang dialect has become the lingua franca for people of different language regions.George L. Campbell, Compendium of the World's ...38 KB (5,501 words) - 17:01, 21 December 2023
- Lie may have hoped for bazaar Malay to become a lingua franca in the Dutch East Indies. Francisco B. Benitez, ‘‘Awit’’ and ‘‘Syair’’: ...46 KB (6,525 words) - 22:14, 15 June 2024
- Church as its scripture, as Greek was the lingua franca of the early Church. The three most acclaimed early interpreters were Aquila of Sinope, Symmachus ...62 KB (8,829 words) - 16:26, 30 January 2024
- for degree courses. Urdu is the lingua franca of the people, being widely spoken as a second language, although it is the mother tongue of only ...40 KB (5,985 words) - 19:54, 7 March 2024
- Pidgin English is the most common lingua franca, especially in the formerly British-administered territories. A mixture of English, French, and ...36 KB (5,278 words) - 18:55, 25 November 2023
- around 80 million people in Southeast African lingua franca, making it the most widely spoken language of sub-Saharan Africa. It is now the only African ...43 KB (6,328 words) - 15:52, 12 January 2024
- origins, as well as English's role as a lingua franca. It may also be related to the poor capability of early computers, largely originating in ...48 KB (7,277 words) - 23:46, 30 November 2022
- elsewhere which have been used as a lingua franca (Plains Indians sign language), or due to a high incidence of hereditary deafness in the community. ...50 KB (7,297 words) - 17:55, 22 August 2023
- Russian is the lingua franca, though before the 1917 revolution it was Arabic. In 1938, the alphabets of all Dagestani nations with a written ...42 KB (6,192 words) - 07:45, 12 January 2024
- and are therefore forced to use Mandarin as a lingua franca. Rising crime rates, littering, harassive panhandling, and an overloading of the basic infrastructure ...46 KB (6,727 words) - 19:55, 21 April 2023
- Arabic was the lingua franca despite the use of English by many of the elite. Many Sudanese are multilingual. ===Religion=== [[Image:Sudan Minaret ...46 KB (6,808 words) - 22:55, 3 May 2023
- spread north from Bulgaria and became the lingua franca of the Balkans and Eastern Europe.Horace G. Lunt, "On the relationship of old Church Slavonic ...61 KB (8,412 words) - 07:27, 12 January 2024
- It is the official language and serves as lingua franca among Nepali of different ethnolinguistic groups. The regional languages Maithili, Awadhi ...47 KB (6,833 words) - 16:19, 11 November 2022
- better off if most adopted a single common lingua franca, such as English or Esperanto, there is a consensus that the loss of languages harms the cultural ...112 KB (16,049 words) - 21:16, 26 February 2023
- Isa Ibn Maryam (Arabic: عيسى بن مريم, translit. ʿĪsā ibn Maryām; Jesus, son of Mary ), or Jesus in the New Testament, is considered ...59 KB (9,594 words) - 02:51, 1 August 2022
- a minor role as Persian served the literary lingua franca used for communication purposes by neighboring peoples and generally relied upon for writing ...61 KB (8,656 words) - 18:55, 23 March 2023
- Urdu is the lingua franca of the Northern Areas, understood by most inhabitants. The Shina language (with several dialects) is the language of ...51 KB (7,778 words) - 19:17, 4 June 2024
- at least half of the population and serves as a lingua franca for most Afghans. Pashto is spoken by 35 percent of the population, mainly in the south ...50 KB (7,441 words) - 05:59, 16 June 2023
- wider civilized world. English remains a lingua franca, often popular even where it is not an official language (as in India). The greatest legacy ...59 KB (8,891 words) - 02:41, 22 November 2023
- Armenian and Türkmen minorities. Aramaic, the lingua franca of the region before the advent of Islam, and Arabic, are spoken among certain ethnic groups ...53 KB (7,689 words) - 00:57, 21 April 2023
