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by derriz
3643 days ago
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not quite. The term "lingua Franca" originally referred to a Mediterranean trading language - certainly a Romance language but not French. Yes for a while French was a lingua Franca in the modern sense but the term doesn't come from French. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mediterranean_Lingua_Franca |
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