2 ms·
And the original "lingua franca" wasn't French! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mediterranean_Lingua_Franca https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mediterranean_Lingua_Fra
by canjobear 3y ago
And the original "lingua franca" wasn't French! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mediterranean_Lingua_Franca https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mediterranean_Lingua_Franca
- ithkuil 3y agoBecause the people of the Mediterranean were as imprecise as westerners are when referring to other people. They called "franks" any people in the west that didn't speak Greek. In the same way as many today call arabs any people that are Muslim even if thet are Turks or Iranians