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noun

Lingua Franca n.

The commercial language of the Levant, a mixture of the languages of the people of the region and of foreign traders.

Any hybrid or other language used over a wide area as a common or commercial tongue among peoples of different speech.

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Etymology of 'Lingua Franca'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Lingua Franca" Quotes from Famous Books

... 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

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