What's your historic regional lingua franca? >Classical

>>79426414
idk, Chumash I guess.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%C3%ADngua_Geral

Apache Chinook Indo-Tomahawk language desu

>>79426414
It's hard question. We always used Russian, but almost half of entire Europe spoke latin. The second half of Europe spoke Greece. But our alphabet is cyrillic. And I don't now, better ask wikipedia about it.

https://infogalactic.com/info/Southern_American_English

>>79426524
>chumash
What is it?

>>79426414
Malay.

>>79426562

>>79426524

Holy shit, you aren't native population. You aren't immegrants from Europe or Asia. Yours lingua franka was Latin or English, even it could be chines.

>>79426752
The Chumash (who spoke the Chumash languages) were the natives of an area of Southern California where I live. We learned about them in Elementary school and some Chumash woman came to our school and gave some talk on her culture of eating acorns and stuff like that.

The languages are all dead now and they have been for half a century.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chumashan_languages

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chumash_people

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>>79426817

I believe it was Sanskrit before Islam came.

Even Singapore (Singhapur) is Sanskrit

>>79426823
OP said regional franca.

>>79426823
*You are

>>79426844
Historical region. Yours historical region was Europe or Asia, ok it also could be Africa.

>>79426873
I guess we just interpreted OP's question differently then.
If it was meant to ask the lingua franca of the land whence I'm from; mera lingua franca urdu hai (my lingua franca is urdu).

>>79426873

Just because you supplant the native culture doesn't mean it never existed.

You sound like an American

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>>79426839
Sanskrit is only a guess. It's unknown.

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>>79426414
French (until very recently), before that Latin

I live somewhat close to the French border, our dialect contains a bunch of French words and we still got the GOAT alsatian/lorraine cuisine

unironically Tupi

>>79426967

That's Kawi script. Relative of the Khmer and Javanese script.

It was designed to transcribe Sanskrit.

>>79426960
Supplant. But they aren't real American. They supplant native and almost never used their language. They didn't respect these language, as latin, greece and chines were respected in Europe and Asia.

>>79427124
That script is undeciphered.

>>79426414
French

>>79426414
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laragiya_language

>>79427405

I can fucking read it retard

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>>79426414
I'm Somali, so Swahili or Arabic. Arabic is the religious language of the entire Muslim world, so it was perhaps THE lingua franca, but Swahili, which is mix of Arabic and Bantu languages, was created when Arab merchants had sex with Bantu women on the coast and it became the language of commerce up and down the East African coast and eventually the interior as well. Swahili is a common 3rd language among Somalis, after English and Arabic.

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>>79427405

Kumeyaay

>>79426414
Dharug language

>>79426414
>Russian (1945-1990)
>Standard German (16th century - 1918)
>Low German (13th century - 16th century)
Russian was also more widespread during russification in the late 19th century.

>>79426414
I don't know, what sort of lingua franca did this continent have? As far as I'm aware of, Australia has had hundreds of different aboriginal languages over the past 40k years or something, none of them recorded in print.
Do rock/cave murals count as language?

As for my ancestry, on my father's side it can be traced back to a Scottish clan which is apparently first historically referenced in Senchus fer n-Alban - this:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Senchus_fer_n-Alban
The family motto is in Scottish Gaelic, so I guess their historic regional lingua franca was Gaelic.

I don't really know much about the language and to be honest there isn't much of a desire to know. Maybe if my erotic manga was native Gaelic instead of Japanese, I'd care more about learning my "historic regional lingua franca".

>>79427759
>The Laragiya language (Larrakia), also known as Gulumirrgin, is an Australian language isolate spoken by just six people near the city of Darwin in northern Australia as of 1983. The 2006 census reports 23 speakers, but these are not necessarily native or fluent.
A bit grim.

>>79427939
I think you responded to the wrong anon.

>>79427922
What region of Australia are you from? Find out which Aboriginal tribe lived there and their language would have been the lingua franca.

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>>79427939
>>79427491
wrong anon
Then again:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dharug_language
Words that have survived in English
>dingo, koala, wallaby and wombat, burrawang, kurrajong, geebung, myall and waratah, boomerang, and woomera (spear-thrower)[9]
Neat.

Some redskin language desu

>>79427978
South Coast NSW.
I used this site, which is neat
https://mgnsw.org.au/sector/aboriginal/aboriginal-language-map/
My region looks like a mix of Tharawal and Yuin languages.
Oh, here we are. Apparently the region was inhabited by these cunts
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tharawal

Dharawal/Tharawal language/dialect. Ain't that some shit.

>>79428059
>The Gweagal were also known as the "Fire Clan". They were the people to first make contact with Captain Cook.

Pretty cool.