A lingua franca (/ˌlɪŋɡwə ˈfræŋkə/; lit. 'Frankish tongue'; for plurals see § Usage notes), also known as a bridge language, common language, trade language... 76 KB (7,689 words) - 05:27, 13 May 2024 |
This is a list of lingua francas. A lingua franca is a language systematically used to make communication possible between people not sharing a first language... 75 KB (9,581 words) - 18:26, 7 May 2024 |
Beyliği), was one of the Anatolian beyliks, centered in South-Central Anatolia around the present-day Karaman Province. From the mid 14th century until... 19 KB (1,838 words) - 00:37, 16 April 2024 |
Rum (endonym) (redirect from Rum, Anatolia) literally 'Romans'). Both terms are endonyms of the pre-Islamic inhabitants of Anatolia, the Middle East and the Balkans and date to when those regions were parts... 16 KB (1,956 words) - 00:05, 23 January 2024 |
Mount Ida (category Anatolia) Mount Ida in Crete, and Mount Ida in the ancient Troad region of western Anatolia (in modern-day Turkey), which was also known as the Phrygian Ida in classical... 6 KB (709 words) - 00:09, 25 January 2024 |
Turkification (section Turkification of Anatolia) population. The Turkification of Anatolia occurred in the time of the Seljuk Empire and Sultanate of Rum, when Anatolia had been a diverse and largely Greek-speaking... 71 KB (8,054 words) - 15:07, 7 May 2024 |
left a rich literary inheritance. The language became the main language (lingua franca) of the Golden Horde. The Cumans were nomadic people who lived on... 10 KB (841 words) - 01:24, 4 May 2024 |
Arzawa (category Historical regions of Anatolia) Akkadian, the contemporary lingua franca for international diplomacy. Arzawa never achieved political or military supremacy over Anatolia. The territory they... 17 KB (1,799 words) - 22:43, 3 May 2024 |
Turco-Persian tradition (section Anatolia and Balkans) although they showed perfunctory deference to the Caliph. Middle Persian was a lingua franca of the region before the Islamic invasion, but afterwards Arabic... 46 KB (5,689 words) - 02:07, 10 May 2024 |
Seljuk Empire (category States in medieval Anatolia) area of 3.9 million square kilometres (1.5 million square miles) from Anatolia and the Levant in the west to the Hindu Kush in the east, and from Central... 169 KB (17,283 words) - 12:57, 11 May 2024 |
Lebanon, Syria, Palestine, as well as some areas of southwestern Turkey (Anatolia), western and southern Iraq (Mesopotamia) and the northwestern corner of... 14 KB (1,553 words) - 15:47, 12 April 2024 |
Empire, Latin had to compete with Greek, which largely kept its position as lingua franca and even spread to new areas. Latin became prominent in certain areas... 18 KB (2,372 words) - 15:31, 6 April 2024 |
founded in northwestern Anatolia in 1299 by the Turkoman tribal leader Osman I. His successors conquered much of Anatolia and expanded into the Balkans... 263 KB (27,669 words) - 12:20, 12 May 2024 |
Kültepe (category Archaeological sites in Central Anatolia) remained inside the kārum. The term kārum means "port" in Akkadian, the lingua franca of the time, but its meaning was later extended to refer to any trading... 23 KB (2,454 words) - 20:59, 25 April 2024 |
because their language was distinct from the contemporaneous lingua franca of western Anatolia. The classical Greek historian Demetrius of Scepsis, native... 8 KB (825 words) - 09:30, 10 October 2023 |
Phrygian tonos or harmonia is named after the ancient kingdom of Phrygia in Anatolia. In Greek music theory, the harmonia given this name was based on a tonos... 20 KB (2,035 words) - 08:39, 5 May 2024 |
Ajem-Turkic (category Lingua francas) from this language. The term is derived from earlier designations, such as lingua turcica agemica, or Turc Agemi, which was used in a grammar book composed... 7 KB (724 words) - 07:54, 11 April 2024 |
parts of Cyprus, some adjacent areas of Anatolia, and, at least as a prestige language, the rest of Anatolia. Phoenician was also spoken in the Phoenician... 62 KB (6,348 words) - 03:37, 24 April 2024 |