Even Greener Pastures

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



Do you know any people who made up their own family Sabir?