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Example sentences for: franca

How can you use “franca” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

As mediterrancean Lingua Franca was used on the Barbary Coast of North Africa, there were many words that it borrowed from Spanish and Portuguese.
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).
Compiled by the editors of Lingua Franca
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.
Egghead will be laid monthly by the staff of Lingua Franca , the lively print magazine of academic life.