期刊名称：Language at Work - Bridging Theory and Practice
印刷版ISSN：1904-030X
出版年度：2011
卷号：6
期号：10
语种：English
出版社：Language at Work - Bridging Theory and Practice
摘要：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.
