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How were people communicating with each other before english
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How were people communicating with each other before english become international language?

Inb4 latin

I doubt they knew latin in Asia
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>>1191315
>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_lingua_francas
Literally seconds.
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Italian without the spoken part
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>>1191322
>communication solely through autism
Truly, our ancestors were advanced.
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>>1191315
>How were people communicating with each other before english become international language?

In Europe, it WAS Latin. If you wanted to talk to someone far away, you'd need to either learn a language he knows, or hire a translator.
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Latin was the lingua franca of europe, literally all indo-european languages in europe descend from it
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>>1191315
French, for the most part
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>>1191315
In Asia it was Arabic
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>>1191315
>I doubt they knew latin in Asia
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>>1193095
>what are germanic languages
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>>1191315
At one point it was italian that was the big international language (at least in europe)
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>>1193095
>Latin was the lingua franca of europe, literally all indo-european languages in europe descend from it
how does one get as retarded as this?
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>>1194978
> ad hom

no real argument
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>>1194851

Based on proto-illyrian, a pre-indo-european language, finnic and latin
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>>1194978

No, ad hom relates to him saying you're argument is invalid because of/and some insult. He's just insulting you.
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>>1195086

Its ad hom since its offered as an argument
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