Mediterranean Lingua Franca
The Mediterranean Lingua Franca, or Sabir, was a contact language, or languages, that were used as a lingua franca in the Mediterranean Basin from the 11th to the 19th centuries. April McMahon describes Sabir as a "fifteenth century proto-pidgin" and "a relic of the original Lingua Franca, a medieval language used by Mediterranean traders and by the Crusaders." Operstein and McMahon categorize Sabir and "Lingua Franca" as separate but related languages.
| Mediterranean Lingua Franca | |
|---|---|
| sabir | |
| Region | Mediterranean Basin (esp. Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Libya, Lebanon, Greece, Cyprus) |
| Extinct | 19th century |
primarily Romance-based pidgin
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| Official status | |
Official language in | none |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | pml |
| Glottolog | ling1242 |
| Linguasphere | 51-AAB-c |
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