What is "franca"

Usage examples of "franca".

He uses the lingua franca of South Africa, the bastard Fanagalo, and emphasizes his points with boot or fist.

He spoke Fanagalo pretty well and since most prisoners learn to speak this African lingua franca, he used the African way of frightening the soul with word pictures.

I had heard her conversing in Lingua Franca with her master, a fine old man, who, like her, felt very weary of the quarantine, and used to come out but seldom, smoking his pipe, and remaining in the yard only a short time.

Moreover, English is the chief lingua franca and nearly the whole of the Indian intelligentsia is deeply anglicized.

Lots of different dialects were spoken, although almost everyone spoke the lingua franca, which was basically trade-slang with a lot of Terranglish cognates and loanwords and a little neighborhood topspin.

El Buenos Aires literario no habrá olvidado, y me atrevo a sugerir que no olvidará, mi franca decisión de no conceder un prólogo más a los reclamos, tan legítimos desde luego, de la irrecusable amistad o de la meritoria valía.

Galacta is rooted in Spanglish, the auxiliary language that was beginning to be used for trade and engineering purposes up and down the two Americas in the twentieth century, a devised language formed by taking the intersection of English and Spanish and manipulating that vocabulary by Hispanic grammar - somewhat simplified for the benefit of Anglophonic users of this lingua franca.

He recalled Franca telling him how that mob put a rope around her neck and pulled her up to build a fire under her while she was strangling and her feet were kicking in the air.

Humans obstinately refused to change their lingua franca for the sake of the Library, (though both Skins and Shirts began studying Indo-European for fun—each for their own reasons) and instead sent their brightest mels and fems to help the helpful aliens adjust.

He had been born and raised on a world where Intersystem was the lingua franca as well as the official tongue.

The issei had of course brought all languages with them, but English had been their lingua franca.

He spoke a variant of the lingua franca that seemed to hold wherever they went in the Dungeon.

The cheerful merchant called out to Stephen, first in Arabic, then in a mostly Spanish lingua franca, that he should have them for a trifle - they were perfectly healthy and in a very few years, if fed moderately, they would be capable of severe labour: even now, ha, ha, they could be put to scare crows, and they could always be used for pleasure.

By the time of the New Testament, the koine had become the lingua franca of the Middle East, replacing Aramaic which had previously supplanted Akkadian (I know these things because I am a professional writer and it is essential that I possess a scholarly knowledge about languages).

Hornblower hoped that Turner's command of lingua franca was equal to this demand upon it.