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A global language acts as a “lingua franca”, a common language that enables It is unlikely that linguistic factors are of great importance in a language's rise to.
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• English Most Used
• The Atlantic Crossword
• Role Of English As A Global Language Of Communication
• English as a Global Language

While this phenomenon can. The spread of Internet in some degree has influenced uniformity of different cultures. However, cultures are not geography boundaries, they should not be considered as a result from spread of the Internet. If current trends continue, in the future one can imagine a world in which humans all share a single universal language. Having a common language would potentially open the doors to many opportunities for increased.

With more and more people speak English as a second and foreign language. English speakers play an important role in international business and economics. The data shows that there are over million people speak English as their first language around the world.

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It also shows that more than million people use English as their second language. Having a universal language would open the doors to many opportunities. Additionally, as we travel in time, one hundred years from now, small languages that are spoken today will become. It is estimated that there is around seven thousand spoken languages in the world today, with less than one hundred thousand people using up to ninety percent of those languages BBC, With English becoming.

What is the role of English as a global language of communication?

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The role of English as a global language in the past, present and future has changed over the year especially in areas such as politics, medicine and law. Communication is a skill acquired by individuals which is used each and every day, be it verbally or through physical communication such as newspapers, the media and politics.

The English language is a language which is known as a linga Franca. Linga Franca is a language which has been adopted as a common language between people whose first languages are not English. Oxford dictionary [on-line] Global language as stated by Crystal is whereby a language is used across the world and acquires a global status. This tends to occur when English develops a special role which can be recognised across the globe. Crystal Now that no central authority seeks to impose Russian on schoolchildren throughout the Soviet bloc, few countries besides Russia itself require students to learn it, and for the most part the language is less and less used.

However, in places including the Caucasus, Russian continues to be valued as a lingua franca, and fluency in it remains a hallmark of an educated person. Consider, too, the slender thread by which Canada's linguistic fate hung not long ago. In November of Quebec held a referendum to determine whether most of its citizens were in favor of independence. If 27, of the 4. In the United States, discounting the claims that antagonists make about the other side's position, it's hard to find anyone who doesn't think it would be nice if everyone in the United States spoke English.

Virtually all the impassioned debate is about whose resources should be devoted to making this happen and whether people should be encouraged to speak or discouraged from speaking other languages, too. All kinds of things have the potential to change the rate at which English as a second language is learned in the United States. Suppose that nationwide, English lessons were available free as they already are in some parts of the country and that employers offered workers, and schools offered parents, incentives to take them. Who can say what effect this would have?

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Patterns of learning foreign languages are more volatile still. When I visited David Graddol, last fall, The English Company was reviewing materials the Chinese government had created to be used by , Chinese instructors in teaching English to millions of their compatriots. Maybe this was a step in an inexorable process of globalization -- or maybe it wasn't.

Plans to teach English widely in China might change if relations between our two countries took a disastrous turn. Or the tipping point could be something completely undramatic, such as the emergence of an array of Chinese-language Web sites. The information-technology expert Michael Dertouzos told me not long ago that at a conference he had attended in Taipei, the Chinese were grumbling about having to use English to take advantage of the Internet's riches.

MUCH of what will happen to English we can only speculate about. But let's pursue an idea that language researchers regard as fairly well grounded: native speakers of English are already outnumbered by second-language and foreign-language speakers, and will be more heavily outnumbered as time goes on. One obvious implication is that some proportion of the people using English for business or professional purposes around the world aren't and needn't be fluent in it.

By his count, he speaks "ten or so" languages. He told me flatly, "English is much easier to learn poorly and to communicate in poorly than any other language.

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I'm sure that if Hungary were the leader of the world, Hungarian would not be the world language. To communicate on a day-to-day basis -- to order a meal, to book a room -- there's no language as simple as English. Research, though, suggests that people are likely to find a language easier or harder to learn according to how similar it is to their native tongue, in terms of things like word order, grammatical structure, and cognate words. As the researcher Terence Odlin noted in his book , the duration of full-time intensive courses given to English-speaking U. Today the courses for foreign-service employees who need to learn German, Italian, French, Spanish, or Portuguese last twenty-four weeks.

Those for employees learning Swahili, Indonesian, or Malay last thirty-six weeks, and for people learning languages including Hindi, Urdu, Russian, and Hungarian, forty-four weeks. Arabic, Chinese, Japanese, and Korean take eighty-eight weeks.

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Note that all the world's other commonest native languages except Spanish are in the groups most demanding of English-speakers. It might be reasonable to suppose that the reverse is also true -- that Arabic- and Chinese-speakers find fluency in English to be more of a challenge than Spanish-speakers do. A variety of restricted subsets of English have been developed to meet the needs of nonfluent speakers. Among these is Special English , which the Voice of America began using in its broadcasts experimentally some forty years ago and has employed part-time ever since.

Special English has a basic vocabulary of just 1, words contains some , words, and the nearly , , though sometimes these words are used to define non-Special English words that VOA writers deem essential to a given story. Currently VOA uses Special English for news and features that are broadcast a half hour at a time, six times a day, seven days a week, to millions of listeners worldwide.

But restricted forms of English are usually intended for professional communities.



Among the best known of these is Seaspeak, which ships' pilots around the world have used for the past dozen years or so; this is now being supplanted by SMCP , or "Standard Marine Communication Phrases," which is also derived from English but was developed by native speakers of a variety of languages. Airplane pilots and air-traffic controllers use a restricted form of English called Airspeak. Certainly, the world's ships and airplanes are safer if those who guide them have some language in common, and restricted forms of English have no modern-day rivals for this role.

The greatest danger language now seems to pose to navigation and aviation is that some pilots learn only enough English to describe routine situations, and find themselves at a loss when anything out of the ordinary happens. Something else obviously implied by the ascendance of English as a second and a foreign language is that more and more people who speak English speak another language at least as well, and probably better.

India may have the third or fourth largest number of English-speakers in the world, but English is thought to be the mother tongue of much less than one percent of the population.

Role Of English As A Global Language Of Communication

This is bound to affect the way the language is used locally. Browsing some English-language Web sites from India recently, I seldom had trouble understanding what was meant. I did, however, time and again come across unfamiliar words borrowed from Hindi or another indigenous Indian language. On the site called India World the buttons that a user could click on to call up various types of information were labeled " samachar : Personalised News," " dhan : Investing in India," " khoj : Search India," " khel : Indian Cricket," and so forth.

When I turned to the of Bombay some of whose residents call it Mumbai and called up a gossipy piece about the romantic prospects of the son of Rajiv and Sonia Gandhi, I read, "Sources disclose that before Rahul Gandhi left for London, some kind of a 'swayamvar' was enacted at 10, Janpath with family friend Captain Satish Sharma drawing up a short list of suitable brides from affluent, well-known connected families of Uttar Pradesh.

Of course, English is renowned for its ability to absorb elements from other languages. As ever more local and national communities use English, though, they will pull language in ever more directions.

English as a Global Language

Few in the world will care to look as far afield as the United States or Britain for their standards of proper English. Today each of these national groups is proud to have its own idioms, and dictionaries to define them. Most of the world's English-speaking communities can still understand one another well -- though not, perhaps, perfectly.

As Anne Soukhanov, a word columnist for this magazine and the American editor of the explained in an article titled "The King's English It Ain't," published on the Internet last year, "Some English words mean very different things, depending on your country. In South Asia, a hotel is a restaurant, but in Australia, a hotel is an establishment selling alcoholic beverages. In South Africa, a robot is a traffic light. David Graddol told me about visiting China to consult on another English-curriculum project one that had to do with teaching engineers in the steel industry and finding a university that had chosen a Belgian company to develop lessons for it.

When Graddol asked those in charge why they'd selected Belgians, of all people, to teach them English, they explained they saw it as an advantage that the Belgians, like the Chinese, are not native speakers. The Belgians, they reasoned, would be likely to have a feel both for the intricacies of learning the language in adulthood and for using it to communicate with other non-native speakers. But by now we have strayed far beyond the relationship between demographics and the use of English.

Technology has much to teach us too. Barbara Wallraff is a senior editor of The Atlantic and the author of the book , which grew out of her bimonthly Atlantic column of the same name. WHEN the conversations I have with friends and acquaintances about the future of English veer immediately toward technology -- especially the Internet -- it's understandable. Much has been made of the Internet as an instrument for circulating English around the globe.