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Mediterranean Lingua Franca
Lingua franca of the Mediterranean Basin between the 11th and 19th centuries / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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The Mediterranean Lingua Franca, or Sabir, was a contact language,[1] or languages, that were used as a lingua franca in the Mediterranean Basin from the 11th to the 19th centuries.[2] April McMahon describes Sabir as a "fifteenth century proto-pidgin" and "a relic of the original Lingua Franca, a medieval language used by Mediterranean traders and by the Crusaders."[3] Operstein and McMahon categorize Sabir and "Lingua Franca" as separate but related languages.[1][3]
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Mediterranean Lingua Franca | |
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sabir | |
Region | Mediterranean Basin (esp. Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Libya, Lebanon, Greece, Cyprus) |
Extinct | 19th century |
primarily Romance-based pidgin
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Official status | |
Official language in | none |
Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 | pml |
pml.html | |
Glottolog | ling1242 |
Linguasphere | 51-AAB-c |
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