Search results for "Lingua franca" - New World Encyclopedia
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- 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
- etc.; the French language would become the lingua franca for the entire European elite as faraway as Romanov Russia; various German princelings would ...62 KB (10,084 words) - 04:10, 4 November 2022
- Indian language as opposed to English—the lingua franca of India's intellectuals. Patel felt particularly attracted to Gandhi's inclination ...64 KB (9,693 words) - 19:34, 15 September 2022
- in the 1570s. The Venetian language was the lingua franca of the Adriatic coast of Montenegro during those centuries. In the area of Bay of Kotor there ...62 KB (8,958 words) - 22:21, 14 March 2024
- became the intellectual written language (lingua franca) for Eastern Europe. The greatest territorial extension was reached under Simeon I of ...61 KB (8,943 words) - 18:41, 22 November 2023
- the language of the Aztecs and a regional lingua franca, as well as Chontal Maya, which was also understood by Aguilar. Cortés would be able to ...74 KB (12,378 words) - 15:44, 25 January 2023
- national language of China and is used as a lingua franca in the country between people of different linguistic backgrounds. There are as many ...89 KB (11,967 words) - 17:55, 26 March 2023
- #039;s population), and also a lingua franca in Africa. It is the official language of nine countries. Mirandese language, another Romance language ...88 KB (12,576 words) - 00:25, 12 April 2023
- language became the world's unofficial lingua franca, while English common law is also the foundation of many legal systems throughout the English ...103 KB (15,568 words) - 18:34, 13 February 2024
- The German language was once the lingua franca of central, eastern, and northern Europe. As a foreign language, German is the third most taught ...115 KB (16,736 words) - 18:20, 21 May 2024
