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Re:How Africans Are Changing French – One Joke, Rap and Book... by Koshkin on Sunday December 17, 2023 @05:25PM (#38677081)
That's not exactly true. To quote Wikipedia, Lingua franca meant literally "Frankish language" in Late Latin, and it originally referred specifically to the language that was used around the Eastern Mediterranean Sea as the main language of commerce.
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Re:How Africans Are Changing French – One Joke, Rap and Book... by qwytw on Sunday December 17, 2023 @06:29PM (#38677504)
> to the language that was used around the Eastern Mediterranean Sea as the main language of commerce.

Which was a language that was barely related to modern French (besides belonging to the same Romance language sub-branch which includes Catalan, Occitan and most Northern Italian dialects, coincidentally places where most of those merchants who introduced that language came from).

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Re:How Africans Are Changing French – One Joke, Rap and Book... by thaumasiotes on Monday December 18, 2023 @12:31AM (#38679537)
> Which was a language that was barely related to modern French (besides belonging to the same Romance language sub-branch which includes Catalan, Occitan and most Northern Italian dialects

So, very closely related to French?

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Re:How Africans Are Changing French – One Joke, Rap and Book... by hardlianotion on Sunday December 17, 2023 @06:28PM (#38677500)
To be fair to parent, France is on the western side of the Mediterranean sea.
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Re:How Africans Are Changing French – One Joke, Rap and Book... by qwytw on Sunday December 17, 2023 @06:31PM (#38677518)
It wasn't even on the Mediterranean at the time (or rather French was spoken in the North of modern France back then). People on Mediterranean coast of France were speaking Occitan and other dialects which were more closely related to Catalan and Northern Italian (all of those were mostly eradicated during and during the century or so after the French revolution).
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Re:How Africans Are Changing French – One Joke, Rap and Book... by rockinghigh on Sunday December 17, 2023 @07:45PM (#38677981)
The eradication of Occitan and other local languages like Breton was the strongest in mid 1800s to the early 1900s. Students speaking it would be punished.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vergonha

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