Lingua Franca

Alan Bedford on 21 Feb 2004   Link to this

"Any hybrid or other language used over a wide area as a common or commercial tongue among peoples of different speech." (Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary,

vicenzo on 7 Feb 2005   Link to this

from the esteemed LH who keeps us on cutting edge of the rite word for the rite time------------
http://www.languagehat.com/
http://www.uwm.edu/~corre/franca/go.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lingua_franca

http://www.uwm.edu/~corre/franca/edition3/forew...
http://www.uwm.edu/~corre/franca/edition3/trave...

vicenzo on 7 Feb 2005   Link to this

some diary background ref:under lingua franca
http://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/1660/05/06/
http://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/1660/12/03/

http://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/1661/02/08/
http://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/1661/02/11/

and others incl http://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/1662/01/11/

dirk on 21 Jun 2008   Link to this

The "real" Lingua Franca:

http://www.uwm.edu/~corre/franca/go.html