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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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