%0 Journal Article
%T A Language with a Purpose - the Original Lingua Franca
%A Peter Kastberg
%J Language at Work : Bridging Theory and Practice
%D 2012
%I 
%X The original Lingua Franca was a language without a nation, without native speakers, and without literature. Despite these facts, which we may easily see as severe shortcomings in the linguistics department, it was, however, a language that served its purpose. From the Dark Ages and until the onset of modernity it served as the traders¡¯ Esperanto. As such it was spoken from the Levant across the Mediterranean and to the Maghreb. Actually a quite convincing track record for a linguistically challenged language, I might add.
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