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lingua franca
lingua franca , an auxiliary language, generally of a hybrid and partially developed nature, that is employed over an extensive area by people speaking different and mutually unintelligible tongues in order to communicate with one another. Such a language frequently is used primarily for commercial ... Read more
Chinook jargon
Chinook jargon lingua franca of early traders on the Northwest Coast of the United States and Canada. It included Chinook, Nootka, English, and French words, with various borrowings. ... Read more
Corpus Christi
Corpus Christi [Lat.,=body of Christ], feast of the Western Church, observed on the Thursday after Trinity Sunday (or on the following Sunday). The feast, which celebrates the founding of the sacrament of the Eucharist, was established generally in 1264 with an office by St. Thomas Aquinas, which i... Read more
Saint Venantius Fortunatus
Saint Venantius Fortunatus (Venantius Honorius Clementianus Fortunatus) , d. c.600, Latin poet, b. near Treviso, Italy. A priest in Gaul and later bishop of Poitiers, he wrote a long poem on St. Martin of Tours and also the hymn Vexilla Regis prodeunt, sung on Good Friday in the Roman Catholic C... Read more
Julius Caesar Scaliger
Julius Caesar Scaliger 1484-1558, Italian philologist and physician in France. Scaliger studied medicine and settled in France (1526), where he worked as a physician. A scholar of profound erudition, Scaliger was nevertheless contentious and arrogant and made many enemies, including Erasmus and Jer... Read more
pidgin
pidgin , a lingua franca that is not the mother tongue of anyone using it and that has a simplified grammar and a restricted, often polyglot vocabulary. The earliest documented pidgin is the Lingua Franca (or Sabir) that developed among merchants and traders in the Mediterranean in the Middle Ages... Read more
Hausa
Hausa or Haussa , black African ethnic group, numbering about 23 million, chiefly in N Nigeria and S Niger. The Hausa are almost exclusively Muslim and practice agriculture. Their widespread trading activities have contributed to making their language a lingua franca in much of W Africa. In earl... Read more
Swahili language
Swahili language member of the Bantu group of African languages (see African languages and Bantu languages ). Swahili is spoken by 30 million people, chiefly in Tanzania, Kenya, Congo (Kinshasa), Burundi, and Uganda, and serves as a lingua franca for additional millions in E Africa, including Eu... Read more
Marcus Terentius Varro
Marcus Terentius Varro 116 BC-27? BC, Roman man of letters. Known as the most erudite man and the most prolific writer of his times, Varro is estimated to have written about 620 volumes. He served as Pompey's legate in Spain and fought at Pharsalus, but was reconciled with Caesar, who made him dire... Read more
Hindustani
Hindustani , subdivision of the Indic group of the Indo-Iranian languages, which themselves form a subfamily of the Indo-European family of languages. Some authorities define Hindustani as the spoken form of Hindi and Urdu . Others prefer to call Hindi and Urdu written varieties of Hindustani. Th... Read more

Encyclopedia entries related to "Lingua"

lingua franca
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition lingua franca , an auxiliary language, generally...Swahili language ); Chinook jargon, a lingua franca formerly used in the American Northwest...Polynesian languages ). The original lingua franca was a tongue actually called Lingua...
LINGUA FRANCA
Book article from: Concise Oxford Companion to the English Language LINGUA FRANCA. [The plural is usually lingua francas , but sometimes Italian lingue franche and Latin linguae...medium of communication for any purposes and at any level. A lingua franca may be either a fullyfledged language ( LATIN in the...
pidgin
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition pidgin , a lingua franca that is not the mother tongue of...The earliest documented pidgin is the Lingua Franca (or Sabir) that developed among...Americans in the Pacific Northwest, and Lingua Gêral, based on a Native American...
TOK PISIN
Book article from: Concise Oxford Companion to the English Language ...pidgin . Names for the English-based LINGUA FRANCA of PAPUA NEW GUINEA (PNG), officially...the Pacific during the 19c and used as a lingua franca between English-speaking Europeans...colonizers. It has become the most important lingua franca for PNG and is now being acquired...
AFRICAN ENGLISH
Book article from: Concise Oxford Companion to the English Language ...sub-Saharan countries (including as a lingua franca between speakers of different indigenous...educated élite, while such African lingua francas as Hausa and Swahili continued...Contact between standard English and these lingua francas (including the pidgin and creole...
South and Southeast Asians of Canada
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Cultures ...that in all South Asian source societies English is either a lingua franca of the educated classes or a national language. Thus...Laotian Chinese). Cantonese operates as a Chinese commercial lingua franca in Cambodia and Laos, and many Chinese from there can...
interactive fiction
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature ...role of writer, reader, and critic. Examples can be found at Lingua MOO (1995), created and administered by Cynthia Haynes and...the University of Texas at Dallas. www location: http://lingua.utdallas.edu/; and the trAce International Online Writing...
NIGERIA
Book article from: Concise Oxford Companion to the English Language ...Yoruba (18%); Nigerian Pidgin English is a widely used LINGUA FRANCA . English is the language of education after the first...WEST AFRICAN PIDGIN ENGLISH is used throughout the country as a lingua franca. It is sometimes acquired as a mother tongue in such...
BUSINESS ENGLISH
Book article from: Concise Oxford Companion to the English Language ...communicate with an Italian in Belgium. In other words, it is a lingua franca used between those for whom English is not their native...of the person speaking in each case’ (‘Lingua Anglica: The Emergence of International Business English...
Congo
Encyclopedia entry from: World Press Encyclopedia ...The Bateke as well as the Bakongo accept Kituba as a Congolese lingua franca to cross ethnic and linguistic boundaries. As a result...Lingala , another Bantu language, has evolved as yet another lingua franca up and down the Congo River. It has spread both east...

Dictionary entries related to "Lingua"

Pange Lingua
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church Pange Lingua. The title of two Latin hymns: the Passiontide hymn by Venantius Fortunatus ( Pange lingua gloriosi proelium certaminis ; ‘...Christi hymn by St Thomas Aquinas ( Pange lingua gloriosi corporis mysterium ; ‘...
Lingua Franca
Book article from: The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase and Fable Lingua Franca a mixture of Italian with French, Greek, Arabic, and Spanish, formerly used in the Levant; lingua franca now denotes a language that is adopted as a common language between speakers whose native languages are different. Recorded...
lingua franca
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology lingua franca orig. mixed jargon based on Italian, used in the Levant. XVII. — It., ‘Frankish tongue’; see FRANK .
Communication of Ideas: The Americas and their Influence
Dictionary entry from: New Dictionary of the History of Ideas ...more remarkable achievements in communication developed by Native Americans is Plains Sign Language (PSL). It served as a lingua franca, enabling communication between tribes speaking different dialects and in some cases completely different languages...
Sign Language, Indian
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History ...Mobilian jargon in the Southeast and Chinook jargon on the Northwest Coast, the Plains area was unique in developing a signed lingua franca. Three factors shed some light on how and why it developed. First, no one nation in the Plains area was economically...
Borrichius (or Borch), Olaus
Dictionary entry from: Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography ...works are Docimastice metallica (Copenhagen, 1660): De oriu et pro-gressu chemiae disseriatia (Copenhagen, 1668); Lingua pharmacopoeorum sive de accurata vocahulorum in pharma-copoliis usitatorum pronunciatione (Copenhagen, 1670); Hermetis...
tongue
Book article from: The Oxford Pocket Dictionary of Current English ...someone is very eager for something: the tabloids have their tongues hanging out for this stuff. DERIVATIVES: tongue·less adj. ORIGIN: Old English tunge , of Germanic origin; related to Dutch tong , German Zunge and Latin lingua .
Hausa
Book article from: The Oxford Pocket Dictionary of Current English ...northern Nigeria and adjacent regions. 2. the Chadic language of this people, spoken mainly in Nigeria and Niger, and widely used as a lingua franca in parts of West Africa. • adj. of or relating to this people or their language.
Tantum ergo
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church Tantum ergo. The last two verses of St Thomas Aquinas's hymn ‘ Pange lingua gloriosi ’, often used at Benediction in the RC Church. One English translation begins ‘Therefore we, before Him bending’.
lingual
Book article from: A Dictionary of Nursing lingual ( ling -wăl) adj. relating to, situated close to, or resembling the tongue (lingua).

Thesaurus entries related to "Lingua"

language
Book article from: The Oxford Pocket Thesaurus of Current English ...country/world synonyms : speech, dialect, vernacular, regionalism, provincialism, localism, rhyming slang, patois, lingua franca, barbarism, vulgarism, colloquialism, informal language, slang, idiom, idiolect, jargon, patter, cant, legalese...
lingo
Book article from: The Oxford Pocket Thesaurus of Current English lingo • noun   synonyms : language, tongue, speech, jargon, terminology, phraseology, idiom, dialect, patter, vernacular, lingua franca.
tongue
Book article from: The Oxford American Writers Thesaurus ...a foreign tongue synonyms : language, dialect, patois, vernacular, mother tongue, native tongue, heritage language, lingua franca; informal lingo.   2. her sharp tongue synonyms : way/manner of speaking, speech, choice of words, parlance...

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Insegnare lingua con il cinema: una prospettiva alternativa.
Magazine article from: Italica; 3/22/2006; ; 700+ words ; ...Driscoll, (1) allora Professore di Lingua e Letteratura Italiana all'universita...audiovisivi nell'insegnamento della lingua, citando in modo particolare il cinema...come possibile mezzo per insegnare una lingua straniera. Molto e stato detto in proposito...
Serragiotto, Graziano. C.L.I.L: Apprendere insieme una lingua e contenuti non linguistici.(Book review)
Magazine article from: Italica; 3/22/2009; ; 700+ words ; ...C.L.I.L: Apprendere insieme una lingua e contenuti non linguistici. Perugia...didattica che integra l'apprendimento della lingua non nativa e la materia di altre discipline...grande utilita a docenti d'italiano lingua seconda/straniera (L2/LS) sia a...
What we lost when Lingua Franca fell. (Magazines).(Brief Article)
Magazine article from: Columbia Journalism Review; 1/1/2002; ; 700+ words ; ...Village, I purchased my first copy of Lingua Franca: The Review of Academic Life...Know-It-All." I was intrigued that Lingua Franca's writer, Adam Begley, had...I dispatched a blind story pitch to Lingua Franca's young editor, Alexander Star...
A (diz!) ordem propria da lingua./The unique language (dis)order.
Magazine article from: Alfa: Revista de Lingüística; 1/1/2004; ; 700+ words ; ...por Saussure (1970) segundo aqual a lingua tem uma ordem propria. Para fazer mm...desejo. * PALAVRAS-CHAVE: Linguistica; lingua; ordem; psicanalise; sujeito. * ABSTRACT...institui-la como ciencia, ou seja, a lingua, que tem uma ordem propria. Queremos...
Pangea Lingua suddenly says adieu
Magazine article from: Indianapolis Business Journal; 10/6/2008; ; 700+ words ; ...Not long ago, translation firm Pangea Lingua was one of Indianapolis' women-owned...sad." For more than a decade, Pangea Lingua translated business materials for some...the time was $1.5 million. A Pangea Lingua translator complained to IBJ last month...
Lamentations, Poor Lingua Franca, An Orphan of the Academic Storm.(TheFrontPage)
Newspaper article from: The New York Observer (New York, NY); 11/12/2001; 700+ words ; ...something had to be done. It was a wake for Lingua Franca, an informal farewell organized...AndIfeltsadfor myself, because I was one of Lingua Franca's most extreme fans. It was...walls of academia I'd left behind. Lingua Franca also had something rare inside...
Chrystal Software Introduces Lingua; New Application for Astoria Manages Translation Process.
Business Wire; 8/27/1998; 700+ words ; ...Co., announced the availability of Lingua(TM), a new application for the company's flagship product Astoria. Lingua extends Astoria's feature-rich...level to multiple language versions. "Lingua enables immediate identification of...
Lingua Franca, the Magazine of Naked Academia; It's Taken the Starch Out of Scholars and The Ivy Off the Walls
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post; 5/25/1993; ; 700+ words ; ...explaining what this new magazine called Lingua Franca was going to be. It would be for...doctoral candidate Margaret Talbot, now Lingua Franca's co-editor, as "a combination...would ever get off the ground." But Lingua Franca, the Review of Academic Life...
L'arcangelo e i grammatici: Antonio Gramsci storico della lingua.
Magazine article from: Annali d'Italianistica; 1/1/1998; ; 700+ words ; ...intitolato L'elemento germanico nella lingua italiana. Il suo lavoro trovo un'accoglienza...connubio inscindibile ma accidentato di lingua e letteratura e il menage ancor piu problematico...parzialmente col disegno risorgimentale di una lingua italiana, le cui origini risiedono altrove...
Alessandro Pontremoli, ed. La lingua e le lingue di Machiavelli. Atti del Convegno Internazionale di studi Torino, 2-4 dicembre 1999.
Magazine article from: Italica; 9/22/2003; ; 700+ words ; Alessandro Pontremoli, ed. La lingua e le lingue di Machiavelli. Atti del Convegno Internazionale...dividere la collezione in quattro sezioni: (1) la lingua della politica, (2) la lingua della letteratura, (3) il linguaggio dello spettacolo...