"Lingua franca" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... was brought to Madame Binat's and filled his nostrils with the well-remembered smell of the East, that runs without a change from the Canal head to Hong-Kong, and his mouth with the villainous Lingua Franca of the Levant. The heat smote him between the shoulder-blades with the buffet of an old friend, his feet slipped on the sand, and his coat-sleeve was warm as new-baked bread when he lifted ...
— The Light That Failed • Rudyard Kipling
... Lingala (a lingua franca trade language), Kingwana (a dialect of Kiswahili or Swahili), ...
— The 1999 CIA Factbook • United States. Central Intelligence Agency.
... borrowed set is to be found in the Slang Dictionary. It appears that the English street-folk have adopted as a means of secret communication a set of Italian numerals from the organ-grinders and image-sellers, or by other ways through which Italian or Lingua Franca is brought into the low neighbourhoods of London. In so doing they have performed a philological operation not only curious but instructive. By copying such expressions as due soldi, tre soldi, as equivalent to ...
— The Number Concept - Its Origin and Development • Levi Leonard Conant |
