English as a world language | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 2019-06-15

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00:00:45 1 Africa
00:00:54 1.1 Afrikaans
00:01:51 1.2 Amharic
00:02:11 1.3 Arabic
00:02:36 1.4 Berber
00:03:31 1.5 Fanagalo
00:03:57 1.6 Fula
00:04:36 1.7 Hausa
00:05:20 1.8 Krio
00:05:56 1.9 Lingala
00:06:43 1.10 Manding
00:07:24 1.11 Sango
00:07:54 1.12 Swahili
00:09:18 1.13 Wolof
00:09:41 2 Asia
00:09:50 2.1 Akkadian
00:10:21 2.2 Arabic
00:12:31 2.3 Aramaic
00:13:06 2.4 Azeri
00:13:37 2.5 Bengali
00:13:53 2.6 Chinese
00:14:35 2.7 Hebrew
00:15:26 2.8 Hindustani
00:16:47 2.9 Malay
00:18:09 2.10 Nepali
00:19:03 2.11 Persian
00:20:21 2.12 Sanskrit
00:20:35 2.13 Tagalog
00:21:29 3 Europe
00:21:38 3.1 English
00:23:55 3.2 French
00:25:07 3.3 German
00:26:50 3.4 Greek and Latin
00:28:38 3.5 Italian
00:30:14 3.6 Low German
00:31:00 3.7 Polish
00:31:36 3.8 Portuguese
00:32:34 3.9 Russian
00:33:03 3.10 Serbo-Croatian
00:33:50 3.11 Spanish
00:34:41 3.12 Turkish
00:35:00 3.13 Yiddish
00:37:05 4 Pre-Columbian North America
00:37:15 4.1 Chinook Jargon
00:39:16 4.2 Nahuatl
00:40:42 4.3 Occaneechi
00:41:45 5 South America
00:42:44 5.1 Quechua
00:43:40 5.2 Mapudungun
00:44:30 5.3 Tupi
00:45:25 6 Pidgins and creoles
00:45:58 6.1 Guinea-Bissau Creole
00:46:21 6.2 Tok Pisin
00:47:10 7 See also



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This is a list of lingua francas. A lingua franca (English plural "lingua francas", although the pseudo-Latin form "linguae francae" is also seen) is a language systematically used to make communication possible between people not sharing a first language, in particular when it is a third language, distinct from both speakers' first languages. 
Examples of lingua francas are numerous, and exist on every continent. The most obvious modern example is English, which is the current dominant lingua franca of international diplomacy, business, science, technology and aviation, but many other languages serve, or have served at different historical periods, as lingua francas in particular regions, or in special contexts.