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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Article
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