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       Lingua Franca or personal Sabir?
       By: Aliph Date: October 10, 2019, 8:32 am
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       I met recently a Spanish speaking woman who found her future
       husband online. They are married now. He’s Italian and lives
       since 30 years in a francophone region of Europe. He barely
       knows French. I asked her what language they speak together. She
       said “I speak Spanish but he talks in a mixture of Italian,
       French, Spanish and Portuguese since his previous wife was
       Portuguese”.
       I found that interesting and it reminded me of Sabir, an extinct
       Lingua Franca that was used around the Mediterranean Sea as a
       communication tool among merchants and sailors. Sabir isn’t
       equal to Pidgin since it is less rich as a language and fairly
       more simple.
       Here an exemple of a phrase written in Sabir by the French
       playwright author Molière
  HTML https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mediterranean_Lingua_Franca
       Do you know any people who made up their own family Sabir?
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       Re: Lingua Franca or personal Sabir?
       By: Nikola Date: October 10, 2019, 1:39 pm
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       My mum was telling me about the way she used to communicate with
       Spanish tourists when we lived in the centre of Prague. She
       speaks Italian so she would adjust her words slightly to make
       them sound more Spanish. She compared it to having a speech
       impediment where you say "sh" instead of "s". It makes me wonder
       if they would have understood her anyway and this way they just
       thought she had a speech impediment  :D
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