Sabir
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lingua franca of the Mediterranean Basin between the 11th and 19th centuries
Key facts
- Region
- Mediterranean basin
- Extinct
- 19th century
- Language family
- primarily Romance-based pidgin Mediterranean Lingua Franca
- Dialects
- Sabir Lingua Franca
- Iso 639 3
- pml
- Linguist list
- pml.html
- Glottolog
- ling1242
- Linguasphere
- 51-AAB-c
via Wikipedia infobox
Described at
Grammar of the Tunisian Language — Phonology
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Encyclopedic overview
The Mediterranean depicted in the Catalan Atlas (1375) 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.
Etymology
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Sabir” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.