Lingua franca

This gallery has been nominated for deletion since 17 September 2024. To discuss it, please visit the nomination page. Do not remove this tag until the deletion nomination is closed. Reason for the nomination: Not a useful gallery, since any major language (ancient or modern) can be the lingua franca of a given region. Also, the content is not coherent.

Show further instructions If this template was added because you clicked "Mark for deletion" in the left menu (right when using Vector 2022 skin), please make sure that all necessary pages have been created. If they haven't been created after a few minutes, or if you added this template manually, you should complete these steps: Visit the deletion requests subpage and place the following code: {{subst:delete2|image=Lingua franca|reason=Not a useful gallery, since any major language (ancient or modern) can be the lingua franca of a given region. Also, the content is not coherent.}} ~~~~ Go to the deletion requests log and place the following code at the bottom: {{subst:delete3|pg=Lingua franca}} Notify the item's uploader or the creator of the page by placing the following code on the user's talk page: {{subst:idw|Lingua franca|Lingua franca}} ~~~~ Additionally, you may want to check for Wikimedia projects that use this item and then remove or, if possible, replace with a superior item. For mass deletions: If you want to nominate several related images, please make a mass request by manually adding {{delete|reason=write reason|subpage=write name|year=2024|month=September|day=20}} to each image page and then following the steps hereinbefore. (Help on mass requests.) Note: This template is for requests that may require discussion in order to be deleted. For speedy deletions, you can use {{speedydelete|reason}}. In other languages

  A lingua franca (from Italian, literally meaning Frankish language, see etymology under Sabir and Italian) is a language systematically used to communicate between persons not sharing a mother tongue, in particular when it is a third language, distinct from both persons' mother tongues.

• 
  1839 - Trilingual Chinese-Malay-English text - Malay was the linga franca across the Strait of Malacca, including the coasts of the Malay Peninsula of Malaysia and the eastern coast of Sumatra in Indonesia, and has been established as a native language of part of western coastal Sarawak and West Kalimantan in Borneo.
• 
  English language
• 
  English: Khan's Palace, Kokand, today's Uzbekistan. The inscriptions on the building are in Persian, the lingua franca of West and Central Asia at the time.
• 
  A Letter dated 1266, from Kublai Khan of Mongol Empire to the King of Japan was written in Classical Chinese. Now stored in Todai-ji, Nara, Japan
• 
  Inscription in Latin for 5th century Roman Consul Decius Marius Venantius Basilius in the Colosseum in Rome. CIL VI 1716 c, VI 32094 c.
• 
  Koine Greek
• 
  Distribution of Arabic as sole official language (green) and one of several official or national languages (blue)
• 
  Hindustani, in its standardized registers, is the official language of both India (Hindi) and Pakistan (Urdu).
• 
  French dark blue: mother tongue
  blue: official language
  light blue: second language
  green quarters: francophone minorities