Sabir – A Pidgin Lingua Franca

Arabic, French, & Greek loanwords in Sicilian

Greek words spread through Aramaic & Arabic

Features of Sabir Pidgin (clip 1)

Sabir Pidgin Language on the Barbary Coast

Greek influence through Old Church Slavonic

Greek religious words borrowed into Latin

The Roman Empire Absorbed the Greek-speaking World

The Greek origin of “panic”