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    Bengali language movement was a political movement in former East Bengal in 1952, advocating the recognition of the Bengali language as a co-lingua franca...
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    Portuguese (endonym: português or, in full, língua portuguesa) is a Western Romance language of the Indo-European language family originating from the...
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  • 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...
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    article contains Bengali text. Without proper rendering support, you may see question marks, boxes, or other symbols. Bengalis (Bengali: বাঙ্গালী, বাঙালি...
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    Bengali grammar (Bengali: বাংলা ব্যাকরণ Bangla bêkôrôn) is the study of the morphology and syntax of Bengali, an Indo-European language spoken in the Indian...
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    the world, Hindi–Urdu; and the sixth most spoken language, Bengali. Languages like Bengali, Tamil and Nepali have official/national status in more than...
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  • Until then its position as a lingua franca was replaced by a Malay-based creole languages. Andaman Creole Hindi, a Hindi-Bengali-Tamil-based creole language...
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    Languages of India (category CS1 Bengali-language sources (bn))
    largest number of first-language speakers in India today, serves as the lingua franca across much of northern and central India. However, there have been...
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    Indian state of Assam, where it is an official language. It serves as a lingua franca of the wider region and has over 15 million native speakers according...
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    Bengali Christians (Bengali: বাঙালি খ্রিস্টান) are adherents of Christianity among the Bengali people. Christianity took root in Bengal after the arrival...
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  • Bengali Portuguese Creole[citation needed] (Portuguese: Crioulo português bengali) was an Indo-Portuguese creole spoken in various cities in Bengal: Calcutta...
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    Urdu (category Lingua francas)
    Pakistan, where Bengali was the dominant language), challenged the idea of Urdu as a national symbol and its practicality as the lingua franca. The significance...
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    languages, regional lingua francas, foreign and additional languages, heritage languages, languages in the religious domain, English as a lingua franca, and sign...
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    Tibeto-Burman language of northeast India. It is the official language and the lingua franca of Manipur and an additional official language in four districts...
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  • sobre a cooficialização da língua do "talian", à língua portuguesa, no município de Nova Roma do Sul" O Talian agora é a língua co-oficial de Nova Roma do...
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    dialect (one of several called 'Khariboli') of the Hindustani language, the lingua franca of Northern India that is the basis of the Modern Standard Hindi...
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  • Thumbnail for Project Lingua
    Project Lingua, or just Lingua is an online translation community formed in the end of 2006 with the goal of translating articles from the global citizen...
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    status, despite not being a scheduled language. Nepali, despite being the lingua franca of Sikkim as well as a scheduled language, isn't the official language...
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    of 2011. Bengali is the most spoken language of the town with a population of 9,710, followed by Dimasa (7,855). Haflong Hindi is the lingua franca of...
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    Islam and urban culture. New Persian was widely used as a trans-regional lingua franca, a task aided due to its relatively simple morphology, and this situation...
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    official languages of the National Assembly (parliament) only. While the lingua franca is Mauritian Creole, French is widely spoken by a majority of Mauritians...
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    Hindi (category Lingua francas)
    script. It is the official language of India alongside English and the lingua franca of North India. Hindi is considered a Sanskritised register of the...
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    languages, including Hindi, Telugu, Tamil, Kannada, Malayalam, Marathi, Bengali, Punjabi, Bhojpuri and others. Major centres of film production across...
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    its language may become a lingua franca among nations that speak their own national languages. Europe has had no lingua franca ranging over its entire...
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    Hindustani language (category Lingua francas)
    Indo-Aryan language spoken in North India and Pakistan, and functioning as the lingua franca of the region. It is also spoken by the Deccani people. Hindustani...
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  • and tend to be lingua francas that are either supra-regional or supercentral according to the global language system theory. Bengali is the sixth most...
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    language in Hojai district and for the Barak Valley region, alongside Bengali, which is also an official language in the Barak Valley. The state has...
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  • data may not reflect the correct figures. Assamese language is used as the lingua franca by almost all the tribes. According to the 2001 census, Scheduled...
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    the world, Hindi–Urdu; and the sixth most spoken language, Bengali. Languages like Bengali, Tamil and Nepali have official/national status in more than...
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    language which were two of the lingua franca of North India and Pakistan that time) as well as Bengali (at that time the lingua franca in the territory which...
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