What was the lingua franca in each stage of history? >200BC

>>79104545
>the lingua franca
>the
as if there had been only one in 200BC

>>79104545
>French up until 1970
Fuck off

>>79104645
its true in Spain
what date do you think it is? do you even live in a non-english speaking country?

>>79104645
there are languages diplomats need to know so yes there are, langua franca doesn't mean everyone needs to know it

>>79104614
>>79105402
quoted wrong

>>79104545
1939-1943: german

>>79105402
OP wrote 'the' lingua franca, that was the Spaniard's point. next door, the Parthians and the Sassanids used Aramaic as a lingua franca, the Rashiduns and Umayyads Arabic and for both of those Latin was overall less important than Greek considering the Seleucids and for the latter, the occupation of Eastern Roman territory. even in Rome before the fall of the West, Greek was as much of a lingua franca as Latin. and we're just covering the major states of Western Eurasia here. Medieval Western Europe arguably had Latin but Eastern Europe had Greek and Old Church Slavonic

in modern times, it's easier to call one language *the* lingua franca

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>>79104545
fixed

>>79105781
actually now i remember that they were trying to teach german in spain for a long time starting in the 40's
like, until the 70's they were trying to teach german besides french as the foreign language
we also have the same timezone as germany, but we should have the same than portugal.

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>>79104545
>5000BC Sanskriti.
>100000BC Sanskriti
>10000000BC SANSKRITI
>10000000000BC SANSKRITI