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What is a lingua franca? A brief history, from the Crusades to today

  • Written by Alexandra Aikhenvald, Professor and Australian Laureate Fellow, Jawun Research Institute, CQUniversity Australia
What is a lingua franca? A brief history, from the Crusades to todayGokul Gurung/Unsplash

When the Crusaders descended upon the eastern shores of the Mediterranean at the end of the 11th century, they had to communicate with each other, with traders and with locals.

Many of them spoke different Romance languages: Italian (especially from the then powerful city-states of Venice and Genoa), Provençal, French...

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