The Elusive Case of Lingua Franca: Fact and Fiction

by Joanna Nolan

Book Overview

This book explores many of the unanswered questions surrounding the original and eponymous Lingua Franca, a language spoken by peoples across the Mediterranean and North Africa for nearly three centuries. Allowing people from different countries, classes and cultures to interact with one another for the purposes of trade, piracy, slavery and diplomacy - among many other domains - Lingua Franca was lexified by Romance languages, including Italian...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3030364585
• ISBN13: 9783030364588
• Release Date: January 2021
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 106 Pages
• Weight: 0.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.8" x 8.3"