new website: Lingua Franca
George Robinson passed this along to the Jewish-Music mailing list:
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From: Alan D Corre
Subject: NEW WEBSITE: Lingua Franca
I am pleased to announce the fourth edition of the Lingua Franca website.
Lingua Franca was a trade language which existed around the mediterranean
for centuries, and disappeared around 1900. Significant items were
extracted from Tunisian Judeo-Arabic sources, and the language was widely
used by Jews.
The fourth edition includes various corrections and new items:
* Transcript of a lecture by Prof. Roberto Rossetti on LF with valuable
bibliographical appendices.
* An acrobat version of the main glossary which produces an excellent
printable text.
* A set of discussions on LF with participants all over the world.
The URL is
www.uwm.edu/~corre/franca/go.html