Pidgin English" (business English) performs the function of a lingua franca in the ports of China and the Far East.
The cosmopolitanism and the commercial activity that characterize so many seaboards are reflected in the fact that, with rare exceptions, it is the coast regions of the world that give rise to a lingua franca or lingua geral.
The original lingua franca arose on the coast of the Levant during the period of Italian commercial supremacy there.
His voice, too, had a peculiarly disagreeable tone, as in the lingua Franca of the Maltese mendicants he begged for alms.
Bowse repeated the question, in the lingua Franca of those seas.
Hindustani is a lingua franca invented in India by the Mohammedan armies of invasion from the north for intercourse with the peoples of the many conquered States.
She heard Lanty haranguing in broken Arabic and lingua Franca, and presently he came in, shaking with suppressed laughter.
Moreover the lingua Franca Lanty had picked up established a very imperfect double system of interpretation by the help of many gestures.
Going humbly towards this Arab, the negro asked him in Lingua Franca if there was anything unusual going on in the town?
He spoke in Lingua Franca, which Foster understood pretty well by that time.
As the midshipman was leaving the court the Moor called him back, addressing him as usual in Lingua Franca, while the youth, taking his cue from Peter the Great, answered in English.
Vernacular Hindostani has no literature of its own, but as the lingua franca now to be described it has a large one.
From here it became the lingua franca of the Mogul camp and was carried everywhere in India by the lieutenants of the empire.
Firstly, the world needs a lingua franca; next, the Western peoples need to know more of the Russian language and life than they do, and thirdly, the English language needs to be made more easily accessible than it is at present.
Such a specialised simplified Anglo-American variety of English would enormously stimulate the already wide diffusion of the language, and go far to establish it as that lingua franca of which the world has need.
The vulgar dialect of Malta, and the Scala towns of the Levant—imported into this country and incorporated with English cant—is known as the Lingua Franca, or bastard Italian.
The notices of a Lingua Franca element in the language of London vagabonds is peculiar to this edition.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "lingua franca" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
