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Hello everyone.
Welcome to the Lange focus channel.

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This is just a quick mini video to 
answer a frequently asked question that 

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I get on my channel and that is what is 
a Lingua Franca.

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Lingua Franca is a phrase that I use a 
lot on the channel.

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A Lingua Franca is a language that is 
used for communication between people 

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who speak different native languages.
Here are a couple of examples,

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situations of when a Lingua Franca is 
necessary.

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For example,
there are many languages spoken in a 

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particular area or amongst different 
ethnic groups and they need the language

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to communicate with one another.
Another example,

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there is trade between two different 
countries that have no common language.

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Example,
three at a professional conference for 

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experts from different countries who 
have different native languages on a 

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global scale.
The current largest Lingua Franca is 

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English,
but there are other various Lingua 

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Franca is on a regional level and on a 
national level.

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An example of a regional Lingua Franca 
is the French language.

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In Africa,
there are a lot of different languages 

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spoken in Africa and in a large portion 
of the continent they use French as 

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their language of communication as their
Lingua Franca.

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An example of a national Lingua Franca 
is in Pakistan where there are various 

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different languages spoken,
but or Redo the national language is 

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used as the Lingua Franca between those 
different groups.

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And other similar situation is in 
Philippines where they have to Lingua 

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Franca us kind of what they mixed the 
two Lingua Franca.

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Sometimes they have to gallog and 
English and those are used as the Lingua

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Franca between people from different 
regions of the country.

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Sometimes there are both National Lingua
Franca is and more local Lingua Franca 

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is within a country.
So if we take the example of 

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Philippines,
there is a region where Ilocano is the 

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main language.
So someone from the Ilocanos speaking 

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region meet someone from,
for example,

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the BCO speaking region.
They'll probably use the national Lingua

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Franca,
which is tagalog or English or use both 

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of them.
Uh,

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but if that same person meets someone 
from the Ilocanos speaking region who 

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speaks a different language,
like a minority language,

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then they'll probably use that local 
language Ilocano as the Lingua Franca 

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because just in that one region there 
are various languages spoken.

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So the Lingua Franca you use depends on 
who you're speaking to.

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So you're sort of leveling up.
If you speak to someone in your region,

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you can't understand them.
Use that regional Lingua Franca.

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If you speak to someone from a different
region used the national Lingua Franca.

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So it sounds all kind of complicated,
but basically it means speak the 

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language that helps you communicate with
that person the best.

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Yeah.

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The term Lingua Franca itself comes from
the name of a language that was spoken 

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in this way in the Mediterranean region 
for hundreds of years.

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It was kind of a creole romance language
that had a lot of vocabulary from 

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different Mediterranean languages mixed 
into it.

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One English source from 1632 referred to
this language as bastard Spanish.

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So to wrap up and clarify,
a Lingua Franca is a language that is 

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used for communication between the 
speakers of different native languages.

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I hope that clarifies things.
Thank you for watching.

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Have a nice day.