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In certain countries the lingua franca is also used as the national language e.g., Urdu is the lingua franca of Pakistan, as well as the national language.

Being a native speaker of the world's current lingua franca has its advantages.

The world and all its culture reduced to bits, the lingua franca of all media.

The EU s founders believed that a lingua franca would emerge through economic and social interaction.

Language(s) Although French is the official language, the main lingua franca in Lubumbashi is Kiswahili.

In practice, Tetum, the lingua franca of East Timor, is the most widely spoken throughout the territory.

Most people also speak their own ethnic language while, especially in Dakar, Wolof is the lingua franca.

Tswana is an official language and lingua franca of Botswana, spoken by a little over 2 million of its inhabitants.

This may be a result of the origin of the Internet, as well as the language's role as a lingua franca.

The whole region, especially the major cities, had been largely assimilated into Greek culture, Greek often serving as the lingua franca.

Lingua Franca Nova is an international auxiliary language created by Dr C. George Boeree and perfected by many supporters of the language.

Likewise, the English language s ability to produce and absorb neologisms is an important reason why it will endure as the world s lingua franca.

Due to the important role played by itinerant Arab traders and settled merchants in local communities, Chadian Arabic has become a lingua franca.

Languages Pashto and Dari are both the official languages of Afghanistan, although Dari (Afghan Persian) serves as the lingua franca for the majority.

By contrast, Putonghua was called the common speech of the modern man , which is the spoken language adopted as a national lingua franca by conventional usage.

Venetian was the commercial lingua franca in the Mediterranean at that time, and it heavily influenced Dalmatian and to a lesser degree coastal Croatian and Albanian.

Although English is used in most elite circles, and Punjabi has a plurality of native speakers, Urdu is the lingua franca and national language of Pakistan.

Frye reclassifies Imperial Aramaic as the lingua franca of the Achaemenid territories, suggesting then that the Achaemenid era use of Aramaic was more pervasive than generally thought.

Take a look at the lyrics of a handful of narco rap songs written in kriol, or Creole, the lingua franca of Guinea Bissau, with translations in English.

Their cities were sacked the governors, viceroys, and kings of Susa, Barhashe, and neighboring districts became vassals of Akkad, and the Akkadian language became the lingua franca of the entire region.

While Japanese students rank high in international comparisons, a widespread lack of command of English, the lingua franca of international commerce and science, puts Japan at a disadvantage in the global marketplace.

During classical antiquity, Greek was a widely spoken lingua franca in the Mediterranean world and beyond and would eventually become the official parlance of the Byzantine Empire and develop into Medieval Greek.

It survives in its purer form as the language of the Catholic Church (the Mass was spoken exclusively in Latin until 1969), and was used as a lingua franca between many nations.

This period produced world class Persian language poets and the language served, for a long span of time, as the lingua franca of major parts of the Islamic world and South Asia.

Boeree began work on LFN in 1965, with the goal of creating a simple language. He was inspired by reading about Lingua Franca, a pidgin used around the Mediterranean sea in centuries past.

In proclaiming his mastery of the lingua franca of global affairs, Hollande was asserting himself as a modern statesman, while also suggesting that France will remain as influential as possible on the international scene.

Yeah. Lingua this, Frankie.

In Singapore and Brunei it is called Bahasa Melayu (Malay language) in Malaysia, Bahasa Malaysia (Malaysian language) and in Indonesia, Bahasa Indonesia (Indonesian language) and is designated the Bahasa Persatuan Pemersatu ( unifying language lingua franca ).

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Gibson chose to use Latin instead of Greek, which was the lingua franca of that particular part of the Roman Empire at the time, so that the audience could easily distinguish between the sound of Italianate Latin and Semitic Aramaic.

Languages Since the founding of the Kingdom of Belgium in 1830, Brussels has transformed from being almost entirely Dutch speaking (Brabantian dialect to be exact), to being a multilingual city with French (specifically Belgian French) as the majority language and lingua franca.

Indeed early on in the life of the Roman Empire, Greek had become the common language in the Christian Church, the language of scholarship and the arts, and, to a large degree, the lingua franca for trade between provinces and with other nations.

You are translator for Global Voices Lingua Malagasy.

In other contexts, Aztec may refer to all the various city states and their peoples, who shared large parts of their ethnic history and cultural traits with the Mexica, Acolhua and Tepanecs, and who often also used the Nahuatl language as a lingua franca.

Although it is situated in territory that traditionally belongs to the Bateke and Bahumbu people, the lingua franca among African languages in Kinshasa today is Lingala, while the administrative and main written language is French (see further Languages of the Democratic Republic of the Congo).

Botafogo's debut was in Franca, against local club Esporte Clube Fulgêncio.

Since the West (that is, Western Europe) spoke Latin as its lingua franca and the East (Eastern Europe, the Middle East, Asia, and northern Africa) largely used Aramaic and Koine Greek to transmit writings, theological developments were difficult to translate from one branch to the other.

Both Foolfitz and Yi are translators of GV Chinese Lingua.

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The eastern half of the Empire, including Greece, Turkey, the Levant, and Egypt, continued to use Greek as a lingua franca, but Latin was widely spoken in the western half, and as the western Romance languages evolved out of Latin, they continued to use and adapt the Latin alphabet.

She is Radifera Felana Candy, translator for Global Voices Lingua Malagasy.

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Leonard Chien in Taiwan, is co manager of Lingua with Portnoy Zheng.