The EU s founders believed that a lingua franca would emerge through economic and social interaction.

Many cosmopolitans around the world now also share the English language, the new lingua franca.

Likewise, the English language s ability to produce and absorb neologisms is an important reason why it will endure as the world s lingua franca.

While Japanese students rank high in international comparisons, a widespread lack of command of English, the lingua franca of international commerce and science, puts Japan at a disadvantage in the global marketplace.

In proclaiming his mastery of the lingua franca of global affairs, Hollande was asserting himself as a modern statesman, while also suggesting that France will remain as influential as possible on the international scene.

Lingua Project Global Voices in Malagasy

Community management, to ensure the spirit of motivation, cohesion and sharing of information, across Lingua Editors as well as Lingua Community.

Mohamed ElGohary, co editor of Lingua Arabic.

Lingua seemed like the natural expansion of GVO.

Arabic Lingua is a part of this family.

Arabic Lingua is still a very young project .

I am the editor for the Arabic Lingua project.

So via the Lingua Editors google group, as well as the monthly meetings, I think I m getting to be up to date with the Lingua communities.

In this installment, we get to know the busy Mohamed ElGohary, Global Voices board member, Lingua coordinator, Advocacy author, Arabic Lingua editor, Web 2.0 preacher and blogger.

Futebol Clube de Alverca is a Portuguese football club based in Alverca do Ribatejo, Vila Franca de Xira, Lisbon.

As the national language, Bislama functions more than just the major lingua franca within Vanuatu as it also carries some of the emblematic functions that are typically associated with a national language Vanuatu's coinage is inscribed in Bislama only (Ripablik blong Vanuatu Republic of Vanuatu') while the motto on the national coat of arms is given in Bislama (Long God yumi stanap In God we stand').

I started writing for GV after one of the Arabic Lingua editors, whom I became friends with in Syria, asked me if I would be interested in translating for Arabic Lingua.

The original Lingua sites were very simplified versions of the English website.

Lingua project Global Voices in Malagasy has just published its 5,000th post.

MEG The role of the Lingua Coordinator is a large set of small tasks.

I always like Haifa Alrasheed's choice in the articles she translates in GV Arabic Lingua.

And who knows maybe one day I'll develop a software made specially for Lingua translators )

GV What are your specific tasks as coordinator for Lingua, Global Voices volunteer translation project?

Arabic Lingua gave me the first playground to exercise social media on a professional level.

GV How do you manage to stay up to date with all the Lingua communities?

Additionally, ISN has commissioned Global Voices Lingua translations in Spanish, French and Arabic of each post.

Arranging regular Lingua Editors meetings, and whatever issues arose by editors that I can help with.

MEG By keeping up to date with Lingua Editors. I think the larger email groups are getting less functional as a community to community communication platform, comparing sub community groups where Lingua Editors are more knowledgeable about their own communities.

The project was started on September 12, 2007 and was one of the first African lingua project.

As we can see, your field of study deals with natural languages as well as computers, so do you think it may have an effect on your work in Lingua especially that in lingua you deal with languages and translations all the time.

Describe your work at Arabic Lingua and tell us about your plans and future hopes for the site?

Please help spread knowledge of the many different Lingua translation sites by linking to them in your blog.

So let me ask you, how did you learn about Global Voices, and what attracted you to Lingua?

Every story will also be translated by Lingua into the UN languages French, Spanish, Russian, Chinese, and Arabic.

I m also in several Lingua Google groups, using google translate to follow the general idea of conversations happening.

Many of these translations came from members of the Global Voices' Lingua Project, a community of volunteer translators.

Global Voices Lingua Manager and Board Member Mohamed ElGohary also remembered Bassel and echoed calls for his release

The GVO Lingua Russian team will be translating articles that later will be featured on Echo Moskvy Web site.

This total redesign is being launched simultaneously on all of our Lingua sites, and its features apply to all equally.

Claire Ulrich who heads Global Voices in French has plotted the approximate locations of all Lingua translators on this Google map.

The job The program manager for the Lingua Exchange initiative will manage the project, from inception to completion, including the following

In February 2009 I joined GV as a volunteer translator from English to Arabic, afterwards I became author and Arabic Lingua editor.

Each Lingua site needed to be an equal member of a global translation network, rather than a sub site of an English original.

This update wasn't about adding new features so much as making the existing ones more effective and available to all the Lingua sites.

Global Voices is currently available in more than 30 different languages thanks to the amazing volunteer editors and translators of our Lingua project.