Words similar to franca

Example sentences for: franca

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Before you know it, you are saying to yourself, “Why should I bother to learn a whole new grammer and vocabulary of Esperanto when I can learn some sort of lingua franca (English or French, for example) which at least has an extensive literature to offer?
The ancestry of vernacular elements such as these is diverse and includes antique forms of English and slave-trade-era maritime lingua franca, but an African origin for many of them has been persuasively argued for.
196), for instance, we learn that “the original lingua franca (Italian, Frankish language) was a hybrid language.
With the advance of literacy that came with printing and the use of Latin as a scholarly lingua franca, Bacon and Milton wrote in Latin as well as in English.
I like Lingua Franca , but for whatever reason I let my subscription lapse.