Even Greener Pastures
Language Learning => Questions about the Use of Language => Topic started by: Sofia on October 10, 2019, 01:32:49 pm
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My mum was telling me about the way she used to communicate with Spanish tourists when we lived in the centre of Prague. She speaks Italian so she would adjust her words slightly to make them sound more Spanish. She compared it to having a speech impediment where you say "sh" instead of "s". It makes me wonder if they would have understood her anyway and this way they just thought she had a speech impediment :D
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I met recently a Spanish speaking woman who found her future husband online. They are married now. He’s Italian and lives since 30 years in a francophone region of Europe. He barely knows French. I asked her what language they speak together. She said “I speak Spanish but he talks in a mixture of Italian, French, Spanish and Portuguese since his previous wife was Portuguese”.
I found that interesting and it reminded me of Sabir, an extinct Lingua Franca that was used around the Mediterranean Sea as a communication tool among merchants and sailors. Sabir isn’t equal to Pidgin since it is less rich as a language and fairly more simple.
Here an exemple of a phrase written in Sabir by the French playwright author Molière
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mediterranean_Lingua_Franca
Do you know any people who made up their own family Sabir?