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    The Mediterranean Lingua Franca, or Sabir, was a contact language, or languages, that were used as a lingua franca in the Mediterranean Basin from the...
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  • taken from the medieval Mediterranean Lingua Franca, a Romance-based pidgin language used especially by traders in the Mediterranean Basin from the 11th to...
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    by the Mediterranean Lingua Franca or "Sabir", a Romance pidgin used by European sailors and merchants as a lingua franca in the Mediterranean Basin from...
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  • different languages. Lingua Franca or lingua franca may also refer to: Mediterranean Lingua Franca, the lingua franca of the Mediterranean Basin for which...
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  • 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...
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  • Palarie and Palari. Polari is a mixture of Romance (Italian or Mediterranean Lingua Franca), Romani, rhyming slang, sailors' slang and thieves' cant, which...
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  • as lingua francas that have sometimes approached the international level. Latin, Greek, Sanskrit, Persian, Tamil and the Mediterranean Lingua Franca were...
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  • a pidgin may die out before this phase would occur (e.g. the Mediterranean Lingua Franca). Other scholars, such as Salikoko Mufwene, argue that pidgins...
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    trading colonies in the eastern Mediterranean after the year 1000. As the use of Lingua Franca spread in the Mediterranean, dialectal fragmentation emerged...
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  • this is not always the case, as can be seen in the historical Mediterranean Lingua Franca. In mixed languages, there are no superstrates or substrates...
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