lingua franca

Summary

lingua franca is a type of language^[1]. It ranks in the top 1% of type_of_language entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (3,238 views/month).^[2]

Key Facts

• lingua franca's image is recorded as Linguafranca.jpg^[3].
• lingua franca's image is recorded as LetterFromKhubilaiToJapan1266.jpg^[4].
• lingua franca's instance of is recorded as type of language^[5].
• lingua franca's GND ID is recorded as 4191537-9^[6].
• lingua franca's Library of Congress authority ID is recorded as sh85077209^[7].
• lingua franca's Bibliothèque nationale de France ID is recorded as 11948153g^[8].
• lingua franca's subclass of is recorded as auxiliary language^[9].
• lingua franca's subclass of is recorded as common language^[10].
• lingua franca's said to be the same as is recorded as vehicular language^[11].
• lingua franca's opposite of is recorded as vernacular^[12].
• lingua franca's BNCF Thesaurus ID is recorded as 12416^[13].
• lingua franca's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/0hc9g^[14].
• lingua franca's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Lingua francas^[15].
• lingua franca's Commons gallery is recorded as Lingua franca^[16].
• lingua franca's Art & Architecture Thesaurus ID is recorded as 300411979^[17].
• lingua franca's Dewey Decimal Classification is recorded as 401.3^[18].
• lingua franca's described by source is recorded as Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary^[19].
• lingua franca's described by source is recorded as Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary^[20].
• lingua franca's described by source is recorded as The Nuttall Encyclopædia^[21].
• lingua franca's described by source is recorded as Soziolinguistika Hiztegia^[22].
• lingua franca's described by source is recorded as Meyers Konversations-Lexikon, 4th edition (1885–1890)^[23].
• lingua franca's National Library of Latvia ID is recorded as 000251634^[24].
• lingua franca's Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID is recorded as topic/lingua-franca^[25].
• lingua franca's different from is recorded as common language^[26].
• lingua franca's different from is recorded as koiné language^[27].

Why It Matters

lingua franca ranks in the top 1% of type_of_language entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (3,238 views/month).^[2] It has Wikipedia articles in 30 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.^[28] It is known by 59 alternative names across languages and contexts.^[29]