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The most utilized modern example is English, which is the current dominant lingua franca of international diplomacy, business, science, technology and aviation, but many other languages serve, or have served at different historical periods, as lingua francas in particular regions, countries, or in special contexts.
Lingua Franca or Sabir, the original of the name, an Italian-based pidgin language of mixed origins used by maritime commercial interests around the Mediterranean in the Middle Ages and early Modern Age. [72] Old French in continental western European countries and in the Crusader states. [73]
A lingua franca (/ ˌ l ɪ ŋ ɡ w ə ˈ f r æ ŋ k ə /; lit. ' Frankish tongue '; for plurals see § Usage notes), also known as a bridge language, common language, trade language, auxiliary language, link language or language of wider communication (LWC), is a language systematically used to make communication possible between groups of people who do not share a native language or dialect ...
Template: Linguistic map of Europe. 2 languages. ... Languages of Europe
Officially monolingual countries, on the other hand, such as France, can have sizable multilingual populations. Some countries have official languages but also have regional and local official languages, notably Brazil, China, Indonesia, Mexico, Philippines, Russia, Spain and Taiwan.
Yes (used as lingua franca) Malta [2] MLT Europe 537,000 No (but official and in business and education) Marshall Islands [2] MHL Oceania 59,000 No Micronesia [2] FSM Oceania 110,000 Yes Namibia [2] NAM Africa 2,074,000 No (used as lingua franca) Nauru [12] NRU Oceania 10,000 No (but widely spoken) Nigeria [2] [13] NGA Africa 182,202,000
A linguistic map is a thematic map showing the geographic distribution of the speakers of a language, or isoglosses of a dialect continuum of the same language, or language family. A collection of such maps is a linguistic atlas .
After Athens and other Greek city-states of the 6th to 4th centuries BC, the first documented political entity historically verifiable in Europe was the Roman Republic, traditionally founded in 509 BC, the successor-state to the Etruscan city-state confederacies. [58] Latin as a lingua franca of Europe was rivalled