 | BC, the oldest attestation of the language. John Guy states that Tamil was the lingua franca for early maritime traders from India. In 2004, a number of... 90 KB (8,431 words) - 21:50, 23 April 2024 |
A lingua franca (/ˌlɪŋɡwə ˈfræŋkə/; lit. 'Frankish tongue'; for plurals see § Usage notes), also known as a bridge language, common language, trade language... 76 KB (7,688 words) - 05:49, 3 May 2024 |
Lingua Malabar Tamul or simply Malabar Tamil is a variant of Tamil language promoted by European Missionaries in southern parts of Kerala state like Kollam... 3 KB (241 words) - 23:35, 16 April 2024 |
 | 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... 123 KB (12,797 words) - 01:00, 20 April 2024 |
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... 75 KB (9,537 words) - 13:54, 2 April 2024 |
 | Portuguese language (redirect from Língua portuguesa) Portuguese (endonym: português or, in full, língua portuguesa) is a Western Romance language of the Indo-European language family originating from the... 158 KB (14,098 words) - 22:29, 4 May 2024 |
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... 22 KB (2,655 words) - 10:10, 28 April 2024 |
 | languages, regional lingua francas, foreign and additional languages, heritage languages, languages in the religious domain, English as a lingua franca, and sign... 48 KB (3,625 words) - 06:05, 12 April 2024 |
 | Thambiran Vanakkam (category Articles containing Tamil-language text) Thambiran Vanakkam (also known as Doctrina Christam en Lingua Malauar Tamul in Portuguese; Tamil: தம்பிரான் வணக்கம்) is a Catholic catechism translated... 2 KB (87 words) - 05:15, 8 January 2023 |
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... 15 KB (1,329 words) - 17:37, 27 March 2024 |