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Re:How Africans Are Changing French – One Joke, Rap and Book... by cassepipe on Sunday December 17, 2023 @05:36PM (#38677149)
Well, Lingua Franca == Frankish language and since France got its name from the Franks I wouldn't say it's got nothing to do
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Re:How Africans Are Changing French – One Joke, Rap and Book... by qwytw on Sunday December 17, 2023 @06:24PM (#38677461)
> Well, Lingua Franca == Frankish

Technically no. Especially not the northern dialects which modern French is based on. Arabs/North Africans/etc. just called all Western European Franks. The actual dialect/pigeon language used in the Mediterranean and called "Lingua Franca" was mainly based on Northern Italian, Occitan and Catalan (so barely related to modern French).

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