Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

mediterranean lingua franca

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.39 in modern English

Syllables: mediter-ranean lin-gua fran-ca
IPA

34

Scrabble Score

25

Letters

4

Syllables

13

Unique Chars

Meaning

name

Sabir, the pidgin Italian-based lingua franca spoken along the Mediterranean to facilitate trade from the 11th to the 19th centuries.

name

Alternative letter-case form of Mediterranean Lingua Franca.

Example Sentences

"The Mediterranean lingua franca never evolved into anyone's mother tongue, which is why there are very few written traces of it."

Etymology

From the addition of Mediterranean to distinguish the particular sense of Lingua Franca from generic uses of the term.

Inflected Forms

the Mediterranean Lingua Franca (canonical)

Synonyms

Lingua Franca

Questions

What does mediterranean lingua franca mean?: Sabir, the pidgin Italian-based lingua franca spoken along the Mediterranean to facilitate trade from the 11th to the 19th centuries.
Where does mediterranean lingua franca come from?: From the addition of Mediterranean to distinguish the particular sense of Lingua Franca from generic uses of the term.

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