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Lingua Franca
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Lingua Franca
A language used when two or more speakers do not share a native language. A lingua franca is useful in international business, because participants may have different backgrounds. English and French are both examples of a lingua franca commonly used in business.
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The basic assumption seems to be that this lingua franca was used as a means of communication by different groups of people speaking different languages and that these languages mixed or at least converged with each other to form simplified and modified lingua francas which were later to become dominant languages through processes of language shift.
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The metaphor encapsulates not only the literal translation necessary to communicate across national borders but also the adaptive lingua francas that form in response to dynamic political conditions.
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