How To Use Lingua franca In A Sentence
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Whatever audience they target, they speak a lingua franca of anti-white, anti-Semitic, anti-American hatred-all in the name of Allah.
Pat Dollard | Young Americans
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Arabic became the new lingua franca and Islam quickly replaced Zoroastrianism; mosques were built, and many Persians intermarried with Arabs.
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By contrast, a Portuguese-speaking whaler in search of provisions among Inupiaq Eskimos on the northern coast of what is now Alaska was more likely, one hundred twenty years ago, to use a hodgepodge lingua franca employing Inupiaq and some Portuguese words, but also English and even Hawaiian—tongues of those who had previous contact with speakers of Inupiaq.
The English Is Coming!
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According to the monogenetic theory, Papiamentu originated from a single Afro-Portuguese proto-Creole, that developed as a lingua franca in western Africa.
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Chinook Jargon:a pidgin language combining words from Nootka, Chinook, Salishan languages, French, and English, formerly used as a lingua franca in the Pacific Northwest.
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Instead they will rely on printing out letters rather than connecting them, typing on a computer keyboard -- and, of course, the thumby texting that is now our lingua franca.
Michael Conniff: Aspen High Dis Cursive
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Mr. Maazel spoke only a few words here and there, often using the Italian lingua franca of classical musicians – staccatissimo, piu allegro, marcato.
The N.Y. Philharmonic in Pyongyang
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Instead they will rely on printing out letters rather than connecting them, typing on a computer keyboard--and, of course, the thumby texting that is now our lingua franca.
Michael Conniff: Aspen High Dis Cursive
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Languages: Punjabi 48%, Sindhi 12%, Siraiki (a Punjabi variant) 10%, Pashtu 8%, Urdu (official) 8%, Balochi 3%, Hindko 2%, Brahui 1%, English (official; lingua franca of Pakistani elite and most government ministries), Burushaski and other 8%
Pakistan
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It was going to be the lingua franca for the next thirty years or more.
T2®: THE FUTURE WAR
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By contrast, a Portuguese-speaking whaler in search of provisions among Inupiaq Eskimos on the northern coast of what is now Alaska was more likely, one hundred twenty years ago, to use a hodgepodge lingua franca employing Inupiaq and some Portuguese words, but also English and even Hawaiian—tongues of those who had previous contact with speakers of Inupiaq.
The English Is Coming!
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On this week's Lingua Franca he hands on some of the sayings his family handed down to him.
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I just accepted it,wrote “malthusian” and then corrected “draconian” to the more proper from original greek “dracontian” as a revenge against this crazy lingua franca of the our times… :p
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Some, including Avestan, the language of the Zoroastrians and their sacred religious texts, and Sogdian, which gained wide use as a lingua franca among merchants and traders along the ancient Silk Route, are extinct.
The English Is Coming!
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Languages: English (official, regular use limited to literate minority), Mende (principal vernacular in the south), Temne (principal vernacular in the north), Krio (English-based Creole, spoken by the descendants of freed Jamaican slaves who were settled in the Freetown area, a lingua franca and a first language for 10% of the population but understood by 95%)
Sierra Leone
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But then doublespeak is the lingua franca of the fight game – not that Chisora is complaining about a deal that could deliver not just one Klitschko but both of them.
Dereck Chisora delighted with three-fight deal for Klitschkos' titles
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Lingua Franca, from the Italian for “language of the Franks,” did not refer to Franks per se, nor to any language spoken by them.
The English Is Coming!
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French is also the lingua franca used to communicate with immigrants, most of whom already know another Romance language.
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In African lingua francas such as Lingala and Swahili, jazz today is called . . . jazz, borrowed from American English.
The English Is Coming!
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For years Fanakalo [or Fanagalo], a mixture of English, Afrikaans and Zulu, was the lingua franca of the mining industry in South Africa.
ANC Daily News Briefing
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PakistanPunjabi 48%, Sindhi 12%, Siraiki (a Punjabi variant) 10%, Pashtu 8%, Urdu (official) 8%, Balochi 3%, Hindko 2%, Brahui 1%, English (official; lingua franca of Pakistani elite and most government ministries), Burushaski and other 8%
Languages
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Improvements in translation technology will not change this by making it less important to learn second languages at all, despite claims such as Nicholas Ostler's in The Last Lingua Franca.
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The rest of Major Lazer's debut album "Guns Don't Kill People…Lazers Do" posits the sound of Auto-Tuned vocals as a kind of sonic lingua franca linking Eurodisco and dancehall reggae and hipster electronica, which is interesting.
NYT > Home Page
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So, it's true, franglais elevated to the world's lingua franca would be really convenient for us.
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It is presumably no accident that Persian, with its low inflection and gender-neutral third person pronoun, has been lingua franca par excellence throughout much of its history.
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This is one of the reasons it became so logical for English to become the lingua franca of this multi-lingual nation.
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And nowhere else is football the lingua franca that it is in Africa.
Times, Sunday Times
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In the first century, when Greek was the lingua franca, 'mashiach' was translated into Greek as 'christos' from which we have developed the English words, Christ and Christian.
Undefined
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Chinook Jargon:a pidgin language combining words from Nootka, Chinook, Salishan languages, French, and English, formerly used as a lingua franca in the Pacific Northwest.
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Sierra LeoneEnglish (official, regular use limited to literate minority), Mende (principal vernacular in the south), Temne (principal vernacular in the north), Krio (English-based Creole, spoken by the descendants of freed Jamaican slaves who were settled in the Freetown area, a lingua franca and a first language for 10% of the population but understood by 95%)
Languages
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Its lingua franca is Cantonese, a dialect that has six tones compared to the four tones of standard mandarin Chinese.
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Whatever audience they target, they speak a lingua franca of anti-white, anti-Semitic, anti-American hatred racists such as al-Mansour constitute a significant proportion of these hate mongers?
Winds Of Jihad By SheikYerMami
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Mr. Maazel spoke only a few words here and there, often using the Italian lingua franca of classical musicians – staccatissimo, piu allegro, marcato.
The N.Y. Philharmonic in Pyongyang
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Swahili is the principal lingua franca in East Africa.
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Languages: French (official), Lingala (a lingua franca trade language), Kingwana (a dialect of Kiswahili or Swahili), Kikongo, Tshiluba
Democratic Republic of the Congo
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Rarely is such a degree of lingua franca phrasing, of jazzy jive, to be found in his film reviews, and it is utterly absent from ‘Hollywood's Gift’.
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Congo, Republic of theFrench (official), Lingala and Monokutuba (lingua franca trade languages), many local languages and dialects (of which Kikongo is the most widespread)
Languages
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While he leans decidedly toward the descriptivist camp, he believes experts ought to acknowledge the public's need for guidance on how to speak and write standard English -- that is, the lingua franca of official, public and commercial life in the English-speaking world.
Salon
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If you think about the natural evolution of, for example, a “pidgin” language which then undergoes a process of “creolization” as its role slowly changes from a “lingua franca” used by speakers of two communities to the main vehicle of communication amongst a community of speakers, then you may see that this flattening-out so to speak of cultural peculiarities follows naturally from the participation of speakers from different cultures in its development.
“Who CARES what English people have for breakfast?” My contribution to the culture debate… « Ken Wilson's Blog
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Many residents understand and/or speak a pidgin English, which has become a lingua franca in the west-central Pacific.
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After all, the Afghan lingua franca, Dari, was almost exactly the same language as they spoke on the other side of the Oxus River.
KARA KUSH
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Her Malay monarchy absorbed a diversity of foreign traders into a polyglot elite united by the royal person, a Malay lingua franca, and a pattern of rules and sacred regalia passed down from courts such as Malacca and Pasai.
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English is the lingua franca of the world.
Times, Sunday Times
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Koine is a dialect of ancient Greek that was the lingua franca of the empire of Alexander the Great and was widely spoken throughout the eastern Mediterranean area in Roman times
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Languages: English (official, regular use limited to literate minority), Mende (principal vernacular in the south), Temne (principal vernacular in the north), Krio (English-based Creole, spoken by the descendants of freed Jamaican slaves who were settled in the Freetown area, a lingua franca and a first language for 10% of the population but understood by 95%)
Sierra Leone
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Congo, Democratic Republic of theFrench (official), Lingala (a lingua franca trade language), Kingwana (a dialect of Kiswahili or Swahili), Kikongo, Tshiluba
Languages
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Indeed, in some ways it is the universal language, the lingua franca, of the symbolic sciences.
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Professor Joshua Fishman, regarded as one of the founders of sociolinguistics, challenges the widely held view that English, as the global lingua franca, is cutting a swathe through regional and local languages.
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English is rapidly becoming the lingua franca of Asia.
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Mr. Maazel spoke only a few words here and there, often using the Italian lingua franca of classical musicians -- staccatissimo, piu allegro, marcato.
Orchestra Exits for Seoul
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Languages: French (official), Lingala and Monokutuba (lingua franca trade languages), many local languages and dialects (of which Kikongo is the most widespread)
Republic of Congo
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In the foreign-language countries, English has great importance as an Asian and international lingua franca, in tourism, a reading language for technical subjects, and a token of modernity.
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Swahili is the principal lingua franca in East Africa.
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Even English is touted as the new global language of business - one book recently called "Globish" the new lingua franca of commerce.
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Mr. Maazel spoke only a few words here and there, often using the Italian lingua franca of classical musicians -- staccatissimo, piu allegro, marcato.
Orchestra Exits for Seoul