Lingua franca
- Lingua franca is a language used as a common language between people of different linguistic and cultural backgrounds.
- The most spoken language in the world is English, due to its historical global influence.
- Spanish has emerged as a lingua franca in parts of the Southwestern United States and southern Florida.
- French was once the first global lingua franca, supplanting Latin as the prestige language in early modern Europe.
- German is used as a lingua franca in Switzerland, but English is generally preferred.
- Standard Mandarin Chinese is the lingua franca of China and Taiwan.
- Arabic was used as a lingua franca across the Islamic empires and spread across the Arab and Muslim worlds.
- Russian is in use and widely understood in Central Asia and the Caucasus.
- Portuguese served as lingua franca in the Portuguese Empire, Africa, South America and Asia in the 15th and 16th centuries.
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