English as a world language!

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English is a ever growing language and the second largest language spoken overall in the world as well the forth most spoken language by native speakers. English is the worlds most important language internationaly this probably came about as the result of the British Empire`s effect on the world and The United States as a superpower after world war II. Since many countries had to learn English as result of colonisation it was quite natural that people could use it for trade when countries became independent and needed help from countries with trading goods and other needed support from the United States in the cold War. As a result English spread as a language to learn in school so states could communicate with each other before the era of the internett. In oppose to other languages such as chinese and hindi that are only spoken inside their growing countries, and not as a international languages. Since the States invented the internett and later came to Britan as one of the first to get it, so it makes sense that English became the language of the internett. You can directly see the result from the sheer amount of articles on the web written in English, in 2012 it was estemated that 2,259,431 articles written in English was published on wikipedia and under half the amount in German in second place. You can see the result of English being the “linguea franca” of today because of all the different abrivitation of English and new words poping up in different countries, not just in the native speaking countries!

Sources: paradoxoff.com/language-usage-statis-tics-from-wikipedia.html
http://www.britishcouncil.org/blog/whats-future-english