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<span style="font-family:sans-serif; font-size:120%;">[[wikipedia:Universal_language|Universal language]] | Wikipedia</span> | <span style="font-family:sans-serif; font-size:120%;">[[wikipedia:Universal_language|Universal language]] | Wikipedia</span> | ||
The written <mark>Classical Chinese</mark> language is still read widely but pronounced differently by readers in China, Vietnam, Korea and Japan; for centuries it was a ''de facto'' universal ''literary'' language for a broad-based culture. In something of the same way <mark>Sanskrit</mark> in India and Nepal, and Pali in Sri Lanka and in Theravada countries of South-East Asia (Burma, Thailand, Cambodia) and Old Tamil in South India and Sri Lanka, were literary languages for many for whom they were not their mother tongue. | The written <mark>Classical Chinese</mark> language is still read widely but pronounced differently by readers in China, Vietnam, Korea and Japan; for centuries it was a ''de facto'' universal ''literary'' language for a broad-based culture. In something of the same way <mark>Sanskrit</mark> in India and Nepal, and Pali in Sri Lanka and in Theravada countries of South-East Asia (Burma, Thailand, Cambodia) and Old Tamil in South India and Sri Lanka, were literary languages for many for whom they were not their mother tongue. | ||
Comparably, the | Comparably, the Latin language (''qua'' <mark>Medieval Latin</mark>) was in effect a universal language of literati in the Middle Ages, and the language of the Vulgate Bible in the area of Catholicism, which covered most of Western Europe and parts of Northern and Central Europe also.... | ||
In a more practical fashion, <mark>trade languages, such as ancient Koine Greek</mark>, may be seen as a kind of ''real'' universal language, that was used for commerce. | In a more practical fashion, <mark>trade languages, such as ancient Koine Greek</mark>, may be seen as a kind of ''real'' universal language, that was used for commerce. | ||
<mark>In historical linguistics, monogenesis refers to the idea that all spoken human languages are descended from a single ancestral language spoken many thousands of years ago</mark>. | <mark>In historical linguistics, monogenesis refers to the idea that all spoken human languages are descended from a single ancestral language spoken many thousands of years ago</mark>. | ||