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Lingua franca

Meaning

Noun

A common language used by people of
to
with
, often a
of
with
,
, one not the
of any of its speakers.

Name

Sabir, the Italian-based
that
as a common language of Mediterranean
around the 11th-19th centuries.
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Origin

lingua franca
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lingua franca
Italian
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