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English now seems to be the language of international trade. Which was the first?(Quizzical)(Lingua Franca)(Brief Article)
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English now seems to be the language of international trade. Which was the first?
P Haynes, St Ives
ANSWER: Before English took hold as an international language, French was the official language of diplomats. But the language that gave its name to the term 'lingua franca'--a language spoken among people with different mother tongues--is the first documented pidgin trading language.
The origin of Lingua Franca, which was based largely on Italian, seems to go back to the Crusades, although there isn't much in the way of hard evidence as it was a ...
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