identity and solidarity. These dialects are observed to have developed a lingua francas due to the contact between English and Indigenous populations, and...

as the most important language of diplomacy and international relations (lingua franca). It retained this role until approximately the middle of the 20th...

Southeast Asia. ASL is also widely learned as a second language, serving as a lingua franca. ASL is most closely related to French Sign Language (LSF). It has...

States and northern Mexico. This sign language was used historically as a lingua franca, notably for trading among tribes; it is still used for story-telling...

southern features." Several different Ojibwe dialects have functioned as lingua franca or trade languages in the circum-Great Lakes area, particularly in...

[citation needed] From "HANDS" and "TO TALK TO," Hand Talk was used as a lingua franca across linguistic and national boundaries across the continent and...

categories noun-verb and transitive-intransitive in English and Squamish, Lingua 21: 610-626. Kuipers, Aert H. (1969). The Squamish Language. Part II. The...

default, whereas marked syllables have high tone. In the related language Sekani, however, the default is high tone, and marked syllables have low tone....

Lisse: Peter de Ridder. Nater, Hank F. (1979). "Bella Coola Phonology". Lingua. 49 (2–3): 169–187. doi:10.1016/0024-3841(79)90022-6. Nater, Hank F. (1984)...

Inuit Pidgin) Lingua Franca Apalachee Lingua Franca Creek Lingua Geral Amazônica (also known as Nheengatú, Lingua Boa, Lingua Brasílica, Lingua Geral do Norte)...