English! Perched top of the food chain

THE GLOBAL LANGUAGE PHENOMENA: A global language is a language spoken internationally, which is learnt by many people as a second language, the most popular one being English.

A wide range of the words in the English language were taken from German, Latin, French and other European countries. It is the one Language whose roots cannot be traced to itself but other languages. This however has not affected the rate at which it deneme bonusu has spread the world over as it is spoken in every continent and country. James David Nicoll has this to say about English and its borrowing tendencies, “English does not borrow from other languages. English follows other languages down dark alleys, knocks them over and rummages through their pockets for loose grammar.” 

English is the world’s super international language what socio-linguists term LINGUA FRANCA. A lingua franca also called bridge language, common language, trade language, auxiliary language, vehicular language, or link language is a language or  “Dialect” dialect systematically used to make communication possible between groups of people who do not share a   “First language” native language or dialect. Lingua francas have been developed around the world throughout human history, sometimes for commercial reasons, but also for cultural, religious, diplomatic and administrative convenience, and as a means of exchanging information between scientists and other scholars of different nationalities. Bodies of languages from disciplines have been written in English. Though one might argue translation, very few have been translated.

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