ABSTRACT
The term, from Provençal saber (‘to know’), designates a trade language that developed on the western coast of the Mediterranean and was based mostly on Provençal ( Occitan) mixed with elements from Spanish. Portuguese, and Greek. ( also lingua franca)
Group of six languages in Nigeria and Chad, grouped by A.N.Tucker and M.A.Bryan as ‘East Saharan’ and considered by Greenberg (1963) to be a branch of the Nilo-Saharan languages. Largest language is Kanuri in northern Nigeria (over 4 million speakers).
