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...

Navajo is a "verb-heavy" language – it has a great preponderance of verbs but relatively few nouns. In addition to verbs and nouns, Navajo has other elements...

sardu, Sardinian: [ˈsaɾdu], limba sarda, Sardinian: [ˈlimba ˈzaɾda], or lìngua sarda, Sardinian: [ˈliŋɡwa ˈzaɾda]) is a Romance language spoken by the...

States and northern Mexico. This sign language was used historically as a lingua franca, notably for trading among tribes; it is still used for story-telling...

thinks needs doing, and he does it. The series spawned out of the 1963 Fort Navajo comics series, originally intended as an ensemble narrative, but which quickly...

to ancestral Pueblo people, but it is now largely avoided. Anasazi is a Navajo word that means Ancient Ones or Ancient Enemy, hence Pueblo peoples' rejection...

Inuit Pidgin) Lingua Franca Apalachee Lingua Franca Creek Lingua Geral Amazônica (also known as Nheengatú, Lingua Boa, Lingua Brasílica, Lingua Geral do Norte)...

256,000 Greek – 253,000 Hmong – 240,000 Hebrew – 215,000 Khmer – 193,000 Navajo – 155,000 other Indo-European languages – 662,000 Yoruba, Twi, Igbo and...

Trader Navajo Yopará (Guaraní-Spanish pidgin) Afro-Seminole Creole (variety of Gullah) Haida Jargon Kutenai Jargon Guajiro-Spanish mixed language Lingua francas...

Speas is a linguist who works on syntax, specifically evidentiality and Navajo. She is a Professor of Linguistics at the University of Massachusetts Amherst...

Cherokee Inuit Miskito Navajo Otomi sign American artistic Klingon Naʼvi Quenya auxiliary Esperanto Interlingua Interlingue Lingua Franca Nova Other constructed...

"Saturating syntax: Linkers and modification in Tagalog". Lingua. 149: 21. doi:10.1016/j.lingua.2014.05.005. Scontras, Gregory; Nicolae, Andreea C. (September...

and the fourth most widely spoken in the United States or Canada behind Navajo, the Inuit languages and Cree. Ojibwemowin is a relatively healthy indigenous...

the Mediterranean Lingua Franca from which the widely applied term "lingua franca" is derived. In literal translation to English, lingua franca means "language...

and the gradual abandonment of a native language in favour of a foreign lingua franca, largely those of European countries. As of the 2000s, a total of...

high-tone tó in Navajo, and low-tone tù in Slavey; while Proto-Athabascan *-ɢʊtʼ ('knee') is toneless -ɢotʼ in Hupa, low-tone -ɡòd in Navajo, and high-tone...

vowel cannot begin until the vocal folds close. In some languages, such as Navajo, aspiration of stops tends to be phonetically realised as voiceless velar...

learn a local major lingua franca (for example Mandarin, Hindustani) in Asia-Pacific countries, and all subjects are taught in that lingua franca language...

Qafár af National Language in:  Eritrea Afrihili – El-Afrihili Proposed lingua franca of Africa Afrikaans – Afrikaans Official language in:  South Africa...

Southeast Asia. ASL is also widely learned as a second language, serving as a lingua franca. ASL is most closely related to French Sign Language (LSF). It has...

"Atticism", language purists, who sought in their writing to leave the lingua franca of the marketplace for the classical style. James Morwood in Oxford...

studied by the linguist Michael Halliday, who used the term to describe the lingua franca of an anti-society. He defined an anti-language as a language created...

Cherokee Inuit Miskito Navajo Otomi sign American artistic Klingon Naʼvi Quenya auxiliary Esperanto Interlingua Interlingue Lingua Franca Nova Other constructed...

Jamee people use Acehnese as their everyday language. With the exception of Navajo, all Apachean speakers are seen as one ethnicity. However, due to a history...

website. Lakota language Lillooet language Luiseño language Mandan language Navajo language — A Duolingo course is available. Resources are also available...

with many archaic and poetic forms. The grammar of Koine Greek (the Greek lingua franca spoken in the Hellenistic and later periods) also differs slightly...

"vascodene" (when writing in Spanish, 1959: 114). It was named for Basque and Navajo, the languages at its geographic extremes. According to Swadesh (1959: 114)...

sabbato Interlingue soledí lunedí mardí mercurdí jovedí venerdí saturdí Lingua Franca Nova soldi lundi martedi mercurdi jovedi venerdi saturdi Mondial...

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Cherokee Inuit Miskito Navajo Otomi sign American artistic Klingon Naʼvi Quenya auxiliary Esperanto Interlingua Interlingue Lingua Franca Nova Other constructed...