| So, it's true, franglais elevated to the world's lingua franca would be really convenient for us. |
| Although English is generally touted as the lingua franca in Fiji, all sociolinguistic research to date has shown this to be an exaggeration. |
| We alternated speaking in French, the language of all educated Mauritians, and English, the lingua franca of the computer literate. |
| Why is it that a Bantu variety as inflection-wary as English is the brand of Lingala spoken non-natively as a lingua franca? |
| Swahili originated on the coast and became the lingua franca for much of East Africa. |
| Used by the colonial military in the 1800s as the language of trade and travel, Lingala remains the lingua franca of the region. |
