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English is one of the six official languages of the United Nations (the other five being French, Arabic, Chinese, Russian and Spanish). In the case of Spanish, this process was not even and as the Spanish used the structure of the Inca Empire to consolidate their rule Quechua remained the lingua franca of large parts of what is now Ecuador, Peru and Bolivia. Among early Zionists, a newly reconstructed form of Hebrew served as a common language between Jews from nations as diverse as Poland and Yemen.

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But it is said to be a second language to a much higher number of up to 75 million people in Nigeria alone - about half the population. However, there is considerable documentation of the language by numerous linguists, and interest among modern Tutelo people in reviving the language.

In the Middle East, from around the 24th century BC to the 8th century BC, forms of Akkadian were the universally recognized language. Closely related languages are used as lingua francas in Sierra Leone ( Krio), Liberia ( Liberian Kreyol) and Bioko island of Equatorial Guinea ( Pichinglis). Lingala is used by over 10 million speakers throughout the northwestern part of the Democratic Republic of the Congo and a large part of the Republic of the Congo, as well as to some degree in Angola and the Central African Republic, although it has only about two million native speakers. During the Renaissance, standard Italian was spoken as a language of culture in the main royal courts of Europe, and among intellectuals.

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Similarly, it is spoken by the Nepalese living in the state of Assam and other Northeast Indian states. Today, lingua francas especially but also pidgins represent an attempt to create universally understood languages in a world with growing global interactions. The Old Tupi language served as the lingua franca of Brazil among speakers of the various indigenous languages, mainly in the coastal regions.Chinook Jargon was originally constructed from a great variety of Amerind words of the Pacific Northwest, arising as an intra-indigenous contact language in a region marked by divisive geography and intense linguistic diversity. This was particularly valuable for cross-culture mercantile trading which became one of the default occupations held by Jews in exilic times. While Nepali is closely related to the Hindi– Urdu complex and is mutually intelligible to a degree, it has more Sanskritic derivations and fewer Persian or English loan words. Because the cyberspace community, at least at the moment, is overwhelmingly English-speaking, it is appropriate to say that English is its unofficial language.

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Tupi as a lingua franca, and as recorded in colonial books, was in fact a creation of the Portuguese, who assembled it from the similarities between the coastal indigenous Tupi–Guarani languages. This lasted from the 14th century to the end of the 16th, when French replaced Italian as the usual lingua franca in northern Europe. Since then, Tupi as lingua franca was quickly replaced by Portuguese, although various Tupi–Guarani languages are still spoken by small native groups in Brazil. In addition, pidgins have a distinct set of characteristics that make them differ from the first and second languages spoken by the pidgin developers. Modern lingua francas may or may not be officially designated as such: the United Nations employs six official languages ( Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Russian, and Spanish); international air traffic control uses English as a common language; and some multilingual Asian and African countries have unofficial lingua francas that facilitate interethnic or interregional communication.Generally, a lingua franca is a third language that is distinct from the native language of both parties involved in the communication. gained a currency as a lingua franca; and at its widest, about the turn of the 16th and 17th centuries of the Christian Era, its range in this role extended, without a break, across the face of South-Eastern Europe and South-Western Asia. An example of the continuing influence of Latin would be the phrase "lingua franca" itself, being a Latinate one. During apartheid, the South African government aimed to establish Afrikaans as the primary lingua franca in South Africa and South African-controlled South-West Africa (now Namibia), although English was also in common use.

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Because these people were of different cultures and thus spoke different languages, communication was often difficult. It has official language status in the formerly independent state of Sikkim and in West Bengal's Darjeeling district. In 1570, Nahuatl was made the official language of New Spain, and it became the lingua franca throughout Spanish North America, used in trade and the courts. In the international sporting world French is still the lingua franca of the International Olympic Committee, FIFA, and the FIA. xml) disagrees, asserting that "there are no signs whatsoever that Sadri ever was a pidgin language.Even in Chiloé Archipelago, Spaniards and Mestizos adopted a dialect of Mapudungun as their main language. Guinea-Bissau Creole is a Portuguese creole used as a lingua franca of Guinea-Bissau and Casamance, Senegal, among people of different ethnic groups. Through a process of change, the lingua franca and Portuguese lexicon were replaced with the languages of the people in contact. One of the striking external changes in diplomatic practice over the past three decades is the extent to which English has now become indisputably the lingua franca of international diplomacy. Ewondo is a lingua franca used in Cameroon's Centre Region, including the capital Yaounde, often in a pidginized form known as Ewondo Populaire.