This vedio was four years ago but I can say that learning things never get old. Thank for the very informative explanation.

@tarikenglish3

4 жыл бұрын

Indeed!

An idea for a future video: the benefits of learning a dead language, such as Sumerian, Akkadian, Classic Greek, Latin, AngloSaxon, Sanskrit, Gothic, Egyptian, Aramaic, etc. Just the magic of hearing voices from thousands of years ago seems amazing to me. I have promised myself to learn Akkadian before I die. They say it's the latin of the semitic languages.

@mickybyrd9389

8 жыл бұрын

+realmenchangediapers That sounds like a really interesting idea, I'm currently learning Egyptian hieroglyphics, so it'd be a cool video to see!

@ziad8947

8 жыл бұрын

+realmenchangediapers Maybe it was at one point, but was replaced by Aramaic since the 8th century BC. Now Classical Arabic is the Latin of the Semetic languages for sure.

@realmenchangediapers

8 жыл бұрын

I didnt mean just as the lingua franca. I read somewhere that akkadian is the latin of the semitic languages also in a grammatical sense, and the way it has infuenced the other semitic languages.

@ghenulo

8 жыл бұрын

+realmenchangediapers Yeah, "dead languages" are windows into the past. Plus, you don't have to worry about understanding the spoken language, which is the hardest part for me.

@ziad8947

8 жыл бұрын

Abdeladim Jawad I am sorry, but what point Arabs would refute? And yes, I do speak Arabic.

We have a Lingua Franca in Italy.... Italian.

@sdarkenpsn1881

8 жыл бұрын

+Fabio Gerussi Thats what happens when a neapolitan and sicilian meet.

@flaviospadavecchia5126

8 жыл бұрын

Ahaha maddai, non so voi ma qui in Puglia tutti parlano l'italiano meglio del dialetto. Forse solo le persone più anziane usano di più il dialetto tra di loro. Ma i giovani al massimo ci inseriscono qualche frase o parola, niente di più ormai.

@ramontamayo1305

8 жыл бұрын

+Flavio Spadavecchia io non capisco

@fabiogerussibueriis

8 жыл бұрын

Cia DJ. Mi riferivo al fatto che in Italia erano presenti (ed in parte ci sono) molte lingue e dialetti. L'Italiano è stato adottato come lingua comune. Parlando del friulano esso è ancora usato ed in parte insegnato nelle scuole (anche se poco).

@monikaturkowska573

7 жыл бұрын

Questo e vero ! Io sono polacca e parlo abbastanza bene italiano.....ma quando sono venuta in Italia a Napoli nn capivo niente!!!! Era per me molto faticoso di capire qualcosa...:-(.... e pensavo a me stessa : tanti anni che imparavo la lingua italiana e adesso cosa(????!) nn capisco niente! dovevo sempre chiedere la gente che potevano paralare con me solo in italiano :)..... saluti

I liked that you used the Philippines as an example because although I now live in the US I basically follow the same guide or rule that you explained. If I meet someone from the Ilocandia regions I am normally spoken to in Ilocano. If they are from the same province and the same ethnicity I use Ibanag but if they're from anywhere else in Luzon I speak to them in Tagalog and if their Tagalog is no good I just use English. HeHe. Having a diversity of languages is awesome!

@IgobyOwen

8 жыл бұрын

also by any chance is there some way to revive the original lingua franca?

@priscillacanoy7181

Жыл бұрын

But as of now, the Lingua Franca of Philippines is no longer Tagalog, it's "Filipino" also called as National Language

And Russian is lingua franca in post-soviet countries.

@Tursiopstruncatus

7 жыл бұрын

Good boy. The long scale is the way to go!

@annieleonhart9318

5 жыл бұрын

And english is lingua franca in Croatia/Serbia/Bosnia/Montenegro

@franovak2654

5 жыл бұрын

@@annieleonhart9318 da fuck Serbian-Croatian is. All over the former Yugoslavia, from Slovenia to Macedonia, via Serbia, Montenegro, Croatia and Bosnia in which they DO SPEAK the same language.

@EricDec

5 жыл бұрын

In Eastern European countries which are members of the EU, it was Russian then it became German but nowadays it's mostly English.

@VeryOldOneForever

4 жыл бұрын

In Russia, at least among the educated class, it used to be French. Lots of French passages in Russian literature.

Thanks Paul, very clear explanation

@Langfocus

8 жыл бұрын

Good, I'm glad if it's helpful or interesting. :)

@PtaszekZPtasiegoMleczka

8 жыл бұрын

+Langfocus Sure is! Always happy to see your videos pop up :)

@weaselbzh7542

7 жыл бұрын

Langfocus bonjour si tu veux apprendre le breton viens sur ma chaîne ^^

I'm a Filipino and you explained lingua franca well! Thank you and God bless. More power to your channel.

Lingua Franca means 'the language of Franks' as Arabs used to see all Europeans as Franks during the middle ages, and called them so. However as said in video it has been a combination of Arabic, Greek, Italian and all that has been around in the East Med during middle ages. Later it moved with trade more to the West Med when Spanish and a bit less French influence became more present. It was also called Sabir in West Med and Moliere used it in his Burgeois Gentilhomme as a communication language between Turks and French. A language with rather large vocabulary but practically no grammar at all, so everybody could master it as much as necessary.

Thank you Paul, the name lingua franca is kind of new to me but I now understand what it is. Very educational.

love your videos, thanks for so interesting and important info

@Langfocus

8 жыл бұрын

You're welcome, Liza!

You're an amazing teacher. God bless you.

Paul I love you you're definitely my favorite channel you do everything so well and explain so well good job

@Langfocus

8 жыл бұрын

+Ognen Boshnjakovski Thanks! Love you too! :D

an example of lingua franca is russian which was the USSR' s lingua franca and also now it is widely spoken in ex USSR countries as a second language and it is still the native language of millions of people of those countries

@Langfocus

8 жыл бұрын

+Viking Good example.

@yuwolfuswithout-any-bosssh2420

4 жыл бұрын

@@Langfocus But the Russian-speaking people is a cause for Russian imperialism to war attack neighbouring countries. And Russians is Muscovites until 1721, after 1721 they are Russians according to a Decree of Petr 1...

@dentercognitarna7602

2 жыл бұрын

@@yuwolfuswithout-any-bosssh2420 wut da crap are you talking about dude

There is a constructed language (like Esperanto) called Lingua franca nova aka Elefen mix of all romance languages and easy to learn

Thank you so much for this wonderful and useful information.

thank you for this! Great info...This added to what I knew about the term. id never thought about it this thoroughly before...

I really want to watch every vid of this channel!!! Thank you so much. This is very informative.. I've never heard about regional and national lingua franca before😅

Nice to hear an example of my country..thanks for clear explanation.

Thank you so much for this! Great explanation.

Brilliant video... thanks and god bless you !

I was just thinking of a example in our country , and you just mentioned it right after . Love from Pakistan . ♥️

Thanks for the video. very informative!

I love your videos they are very interresant because we are using them in english class with the perfect teacher thank you kind stranger

After watching some of your videos is easy to guess what it means lingua franca, although what I always asked myself is why is used 2 portuguese words to mean that. Lingua means tongue in portuguese and franca which is the feminine for franco means among other things: free, without obstacles. Though you answered that here too. It's not portuguese but it's exactly the same as portuguese. Thanks.

Thanks the vids just started watching recently started learning Dutch and some of your vids have really helped :D

@Langfocus

8 жыл бұрын

Great! I'm glad to hear it!

Could you possibly do a video on the specific Lingua Franca Mediterranean language some time?

That was a nice "quick", Paul. Lingua francas are interesting and the Mediterranean lingua franca even more so as it lasted centuries, evolved and split into dialects.

@Langfocus

8 жыл бұрын

Yeah, it seems like it split between east and west in terms of vocabulary.

Great Videos Paul! subscribed! :)

Good information! Thank you

Thanks Paul. Just watch this video in covid 19 conditions. I always thought lingua franca was a French recipe for beef tongue. That was before Google and this upload.

thnx a bunch, yr infos r really helpful buddy

Really I appreciate it. Thx a lot

thanks a lot your videos helped me a lot

It is very helpful , Thanks a lot 😊

Indonesian is Lingua franca in Indonesia because Indonesian unites 747 regional languages ​​in Indonesia no wonder if Native speaker Indonesian only 53 Million but the non native is 156 Million, proud be Indonesian🇮🇩🇮🇩🇮🇩

@malach-osu6355

2 жыл бұрын

You know so much about languages but so little about punctuation.

You forgot to mention Russian, which is a regional Lingua Franca in Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Azerbaijan, Armenia, Belarus, Ukraine, and Russia.

This video helps me a lot🙂 thank you

I mean it as a compliment btw... Thank you for your enlightening videos 🙏🤘

I believe there's still remains of the ancient mediterranean lingua franca in Tunisia, specially used by the fishermen. Those people have their own vocabulary that is said to be surviving from hundreds of years ago.

I remember hearing that phrase while I was studying French and thought it had something to do with the French language because of the "Franca" word. Haha, I was silly. :-P Another excellent video by the way and thanks for posting it!

@Langfocus

8 жыл бұрын

+Narata That`s very logical, even though the actual meaning is different.

@Crick1952

8 жыл бұрын

Yeah, when I was a kid my mom said it was because French was the lingua franca for most of the world during the 18th, 19th and much of the 20th century. She was probably trying to convince me to try and learn it (she's fluent)

@vingerhoedskruid1

8 жыл бұрын

+Narata Not so silly, because the word France indeed comes from the Germanic peope the Franks, though these lived in Belgium and the Netherlands. French is Latin but influenced by Franconean ("old Dutch). The Franks used Latin and not their own language as their "lingua Franca".

great. I have a question for you. Do you have the script of this video? it could help me with an essay about this topic. thank you!

Thanks you are very nice intelligent and you make things so simple

Thanks for your video. :)

Amazing video 😊

Amazing Paul....ur all videos r very beneficial for me...m from India and doing Master's...all these r questions in master degree syllabus

Malay used to be a lingua franca for trading in the early 15th century 😁 im so proud

@BayuAH

5 жыл бұрын

Me too. And I'm Indonesian.

@huihud1589

3 жыл бұрын

Yeah jumpa org Malaysia 😂(Yeah I found Malaysian)

@hf23tv14

3 жыл бұрын

Jom kita cari siapa yang kisah

@503amirulhakim5

21 күн бұрын

​@@hf23tv14 aq kisah

Thank you for this video! You can also use the term of "lingua franca" when two parents use different languages with their children and use a third one - the lingua franca - amongst them because they don't speak each other's language "well enough" (yet...) or they just are used to speak that language as a couple.

U clarified my life. I love you.

@Langfocus

7 жыл бұрын

Thanks! :)

Thank you. it´s very interesting your video... !

I am of Chinese descent, and I speak Mandarin Chinese fluently. The lingua franca of China is Mandarin because there are many different regional dialects in the country. People everywhere in China communicate Mandarin the best for professional purposes.

@juandiegovalverde1982

11 ай бұрын

For centuris der hav bied de idea ov kreating an linguaj dat alau pople ov diferente kultures ande nativ linguajes tu komunik wid ich oder. Somtaimes dises linguajes bied kreated spontaneli, soch az de Sabir, an linguaj used bai Mediteranean merkantes in de Midel Eijes, olsou noued az lingua franka, an espresion dat mor leit komed tu min eni international ande interkultural linguaj. Meni taimes in histori de national linguaj ov an imper hav komed tu funtion az an regional lingua franka. Somting similar bi kurenteli hapening wid Inglish, bot weldewaid. Der bi meni rationes hwai Inglish bi not de mouste siutable medi ov international komunikation: 1) Itez speling bi kaotik. 2) Itez fonetike bi difikul. 3) It bi an imperialiste linguaj. 4) Dates hu spik it az an nativ tong hav an vantaj ouver oderes.

I believe the actual term "Lingua Franca" was coined some time between the 6th and 8th century A.D. in the Mediterranean as the language sailors and merchants used to communicate between the different ports. I think the term can be translated as "The Language of the Franks." But, Franks was a general term for Western Europeans by the East. Kind of how Yankee is a general term for Americans outside of America. Of course, I could be wrong.

@purple.9919

2 жыл бұрын

Who calls us Yankees!?

@possiblyijt7400

2 жыл бұрын

@@purple.9919 lots of people in the English speaking world call Americans 'Yankees' or 'Yanks'

@francesc5313

2 жыл бұрын

@@purple.9919 Who's not? XD

@francesc5313

2 жыл бұрын

@@possiblyijt7400 in slavic speaking world we also use this word. In example in Polish it's Jankes (yeah we're using English plural word as singular). I'm guessing that every country in Europe use this term.

@blazergamer6425

7 ай бұрын

​@@purple.9919Not only does literally everyone in Europe but also Southerns (USA) call Northerners (USA) and the Amish call everyone else Yankees as well.

I am wondering Paul. did you ever make a video on the French language (alone)? At least I cannot find it?

Thank you very much

In Cuba there's one language, Spanish , It's easy talk, but I need the English , because in world there are a lot of language and culture. Esperanto would be a franca language.

I think lingua franca is a multiple languages combined together into a new language. Like vanilla ice cream mixed rainbow flavor. Unique flavor, taste so good lah. I somehow guessed why lingua franca is formed, it is because ancient trading in a foreign country was difficult for both parties that dont understand each other's language, so they try to blend in, to understand more about each other. Waaalaah, new rainbow flavor.

THANKS MAN YOU ARE THE BEST:3

@Langfocus

8 жыл бұрын

Thanks, Conti Darkvine! :)

Do a video on Diglossia! Its a very interesting socioling topic!

i learnt a lot from this channel. Now I can launch my goal of being quad lingual.

@Langfocus

8 жыл бұрын

Great! Good luck with it!

In Spain, we have numerous languages on a national level. The lingua franca of the country is castillian, while in regions like Catalonia, where more than two languages are official, the lingua franca tends to be catalan, unless you are in Barcelona or its surroundings, which is full of non catalan spaniards

Do a video on FRENCH please Paul!

@cat1800

4 жыл бұрын

Tu veux apprendre comment parler en français?

Interesting as always. I think that in France we speak a pidgin "bastard english" more than english as a lingua franca when doing international business. (In France, Italy and Spain actually). What do you think Paul?

Paul , me parece muy interesantes tus vídeos pero quisiera que lo pongas en subtítulos de español para entenderlo mejor c:

@rodrigoadrianrodriguezaedo4477

5 жыл бұрын

Ya los puso

i ask you a question the dialecte of which language is balatchka?

Hey Paul, excuse me if you have done this already, but can you make a video about what you think is the most efective metod(or metods) for remembering words(and overall extending your vocabulary) when studying a new language. And how can one improve his active vocabulary, because when i read something in portuguese for ex. i can easily translate it but when i have to translate from my mother tongue to portuguese it's another deal(my mother tongue is bulgarian, slavic, if that makes a difference)

@chambhachand125

6 жыл бұрын

Oh thanks paul

Thank you

Keep it up. thanks a lot

@Langfocus

8 жыл бұрын

Mu pleasure, Michel!

Aula Ead, ótima explicação

nice to know^___^ thanks

So a lingua franca can be used at a regional level as like in Spanish to help communicate with a person ex. (Guatemala)that speak a indigeneous language and Spanish but at a national could be English for more important reason as like going to the doctor?

very interesting description

thanks for the video, and hope to see more

@Langfocus

8 жыл бұрын

You definitely will! This one is kind of an extra one.

@jiihgy2716

8 жыл бұрын

still awesome video i had some concerns on lingua franca before

Goeie content ouwe

"Lingua francas" may be the common English plural form, but it hurts those with a sense for Latin or Italian language. It should be linguae francae or lingue franche. And even if the English plural ending "s" is used, why is it only attached to the adjective and not to the noun?

@ZhangtheGreat

7 жыл бұрын

Because 'MURICA FUCK YEAH! That's why =P =D

@maximumkillmtg

6 жыл бұрын

I guess most native English speakers are so used to having adjective-noun placement and therefore it is natural for them to say things in that way and rarely stop to think that other languages do noun-adjective.

@kaylee4video

5 жыл бұрын

It actually is both "lingua francas" and "linguae francae" in plural. (source: www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/lingua%20franca) The plural 's' is attached to the noun franca, which is standard English spelling for regular nouns and compound nouns.

@giuliettafrau610

5 жыл бұрын

@@kaylee4video lingua is the noun, franca is an adjective

@CSJohns

5 жыл бұрын

If you look at the dictionary entry for lingua franca shown at 0:13, this term is simply considered a noun, rather than a noun+adjective phrase. Sometimes phrases are "noun-ified" like that. So then we would just use it and modify it like any other noun. That definitely helps a foreign term like this to be more easily integrated into natural English speech, and avoid awkward usages such as, "There are many linguas franca."

Bam Bam by Sister Nancy, love that song. Great video by the way, thanks!

Paul, can you talk more about why Mandarin won't become the next lingua franca despite the reasons you give? It would make sense that it could given the number of speakers (as well as China's economic power). One reason it might not become it, as I think about it, is the written vs the spoken language.

@xXxSkyViperxXx

2 жыл бұрын

Mandarin is already the national lingua franca of PR China, ROC Taiwan, and among the ethnic chinese population of Singapore. As an international or at least continental international regional lingua franca, it's going to be hard and only those above countries would willingly accept that

@june_joy

Жыл бұрын

chinese letters (kanji) was really lingua franca in northeastern asia during a long history

Thank you so much

@Langfocus

8 жыл бұрын

+Aseel Ali You`re welcome!

Thanks

Could you add some sources of this information?

In Belgium, the lingua franca differs depending on where you are in the country, lol! If you are in the south, you speak French. Up north, it's either Flemish (the Dutch dialect spoken in those regions) or French, but a lot of Flemish people will refuse to speak French if you can't speak Flemish, so, if you can't speak Flemish, use English, lol. And in Brussels, well... Usually, it's French, but as it's a cosmopolitan city and as there are many European institutions, if you encounter a person that doesn't know French, English is a safe bet.

@yvonneolsthoorn-melenhorst8839

5 жыл бұрын

Belgium has a third national language: German! It is the main language in the region around Eupen.

@nimedhel09

5 жыл бұрын

@@yvonneolsthoorn-melenhorst8839 I know, but we're talking lingua franca, and even if German is a national language, it's not an official language, meaning official documents and all of that are not written in German, but in French and Dutch. If you are in that region, most people will still talk French as the main language of communication.

@yvonneolsthoorn-melenhorst8839

5 жыл бұрын

@@nimedhel09 They are all speaking German as their native language there, which I find interesting. Belgium is a trilingual state, actually, even though not formally perhaps. And speaking lingua franca: I experienced German is used as the auxiliary language in that region.

@EricDec

5 жыл бұрын

French is pretty much the lingua franca since most Dutch speakers can speak it.

Thank you a lot. Really, no one could've explained like you.

Is Paul the Slovenian more intelligible with the Croatian or Slovakian Serb?

I wonder if you could make a separate video explaining the differences/similarities of a pidgin and a creole? I still have trouble understanding those concepts and why they are not the same thing...

@Langfocus

4 жыл бұрын

I have a video on that. Just search for “Langfocus pidgin creole”.

Very interesting

What is linguistic items?

A Frisian and a Bavarian might use High German as lingua franca.

I wish I were as knowledgeable of languages as you. Congratulations.

@Langfocus

8 жыл бұрын

You definitely can be. I don't have a Phd or anything, I'm just very interested in languages.

@ervinnevesrodrigues818

8 жыл бұрын

So am I. Know what? an academic degree hardly ever means competence at all. My hat is off to your talent.

What are your sources of this video? I am writing an MA paper and I am mentioning you, but I would also like to cite your sources.

@Langfocus

3 жыл бұрын

You shouldn’t cite me in an MA paper. This is just a KZread channel I do out of interest. I don’t consider it an academic channel. I didn’t really use any sources in the video. I already knew the content from reading lots of things in the past, and it’s all very general information. The only thing I got from a source was the term “Bastard Spanish”, which came from this book: books.google.co.jp/books?id=6M8TAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA98&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false I don’t remember what introduced me to that book.

Thanks for the info... I was looking for a great explanation of the term. ( and not a gameplay of Metal Gear Solid V)

I have another question: do we know when the language was one proto language like the continents was Pangaea?

@francissantos7448

4 жыл бұрын

Hey Ahmad it's covid 19 2020. I will try to answer your question. The descendant of the oldest language on earth is the click language of the Khoisan people in Africa.

Hello Miss Huret AKA The Best teacher ever

My girl friend is from Brazil 🇧🇷 and I’m American 🇺🇸 and we met in Chile 🇨🇱 and use Spanish as our language lingua Franca

@Langfocus

5 жыл бұрын

Score!

it did clarify it my good sir.

Thanks. Did not know "Lingua Franca".

thanks for the answer liked the video

@Langfocus

8 жыл бұрын

Thanks! I'm glad you liked it. :)

As a Cebuano native speaker I tend to speak in Filipino when talking to non-Cebuano speakers but for the life of me I have to speak in English with other non-Cebuano speakers because I'm confused if their "Taglish" is English-dominant or Tagalog-dominant and I find it much easier to speak in English with them than in Tagalog because it's hard to switch phonology when I can't distinguish the dominant language. This is kinda sad because I think these are early indications of language death

@lorenchristopher1081

4 жыл бұрын

Sa TagLish, English dominant pa rin, siyempre. Napipilitan lang halos lahat ng Pilipino mag-TagLish if hindi kayang itawid nang buo sa Ingles ang mga salita. Pero oo, grabe kayo sa Cebu, L2 ninyo ang English kaysa Tagalog. So nang mapunta ako sa Cebu noong 2O15, English pa rin ang Lingua Franca ng isang Cebuano af isang taga-Metro Manila. 🇵🇭🇵🇭🇵🇭

@francissantos7448

4 жыл бұрын

Hey BuenVida Nadz watch Paul's upload on Code Switching. It really helped me understand "why" Taglish is spoken in Manila. You may have a similar phenomenon with Cebuano as lingua franca in the Visayan islands. Sorta like a "Cebuanolish". You are correct about language death. Standard Tagalog which you and I learn school is "dying" in Manila because it is now Taglish on the street. The English you and I learn in school is different in North American streets. We have English dialects in the Philippines. When I switched to English as my primary means of communication (lingua franca), it only took me 3 weeks to adjust because it is just so natural for me to switch languages. Diction, choice of words, and passable pronunciation. Now i speak fluent English with a Manila accent. When I speak Ilocano, my first language, I have a Manila accent. Now when I speak Tagalog in Manila someone notices a different accent. Language is so interesting. Languages die, languages are born. You must have watched Paul's upload on language death. Cheers.

@francissantos7448

4 жыл бұрын

@@lorenchristopher1081 thanks for your anecdote. An updated street version of code switching, use of lingua franca among Filipinos. I find it interesting, sometimes very amusing, to listen to two Filipinos bridge the language gap in English. I can always tell if they have a common first language. Taglish is a very good example because I can understand how the English is used within standard Tagalog. With the others I can only pick out the English root words. Cheers. Sige mga kababayan. Ingat po sa covid 19.

@titehena8278

4 жыл бұрын

Hmmm.... now I understand why filipinos alway speak english with each other in Indonesia. And most of them said to me that they cant speak Tagalog fluently.

Until 1759 "nheengatu" (a tupi-guarani language) was the Brazilian lingua franca, including at Jesuitics missions, then Marquês de Pombal imposes Portuguese as a unique language. But still have more than 700 indians languages at Brazil, most of all spoked by small groups at Amazon Forest, sometimes only as a L2.

So how many languages do you speak?

nice one :)

Paul we know that in Africa the population also speaks native languages. Regarding the lingua franca, all people speak European languages. For example, what percentage of the population speaks fluent English in Nigeria, French in the Republic of Congo or Portuguese in Angola?

Bonan videon! Esperanto estas tre bona "lingua franca," ĉu ne?