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In rural areas, for example, not everyone can speak lingua francas like English or Pidgin.

From BBC • Nov. 4, 2022

Around town, billboards in Cyrillic and Arabic, the region's lingua francas of commerce, offer traders from Central Asia and beyond the best deals in long-distance trucks and air-freight shipping.

From Time Magazine Archive