> Well, Lingua Franca == Frankish Technically no. Especially not the northern dialects which modern French is based on. Arabs/North Africans/etc. just called a

> Well, Lingua Franca == Frankish Technically no. Especially not the northern dialects which modern French is based on. Arabs/North Africans/etc. just called all Western European Franks. The actual dialect/pigeon language used in the Mediterranean and called "Lingua Franca" was mainly based on Northern Italian, Occitan and Catalan (so barely related to modern French).