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Example sentences for: franca

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Yiddish serves as a lingua franca of sorts for Jews-- whatever they may be--but it seems to be diminishing in that role and is, I understand, frowned upon by the Israelis (many of whom can now claim Hebrew as a native tongue).
The first edition of Baugh's History was published in 1935; because so much has happened to English since then, it is fitting that its history be updated, not only to reflect more recent developments in dialect, lexicon, grammatical theory, and the universal adoption of the language as a lingua franca, but also to revise scholarship in the light of later research that either elaborates or confutes information that is now more than half a century old.
News editor who more or less created the current college rankings, explained to Lingua Franca : "We've come up with a list that underscores intuitive judgments.
--Compiled by the editors of Lingua Franca , the review of academic life.
As mediterrancean Lingua Franca was used on the Barbary Coast of North Africa, there were many words that it borrowed from Spanish and Portuguese.