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During the Renaissance, standard Italian was spoken as a language of culture in the main royal courts of Europe, and among intellectuals.... | |||
<span>[https://www.babbel.com/en/magazine/how-and-why-did-english-supplant-french-as-the-world-s-lingua-franca How And Why Did English Supplant French As The World’s Lingua Franca?]</span> | <span>[https://www.babbel.com/en/magazine/how-and-why-did-english-supplant-french-as-the-world-s-lingua-franca How And Why Did English Supplant French As The World’s Lingua Franca?]</span> | ||
By the 18th century, classical French usurped Latin in international treaties, starting with the Treaty of Rasstatt (1714), which marked the end of the War of Succession in Spain. This was the beginning of French as a langue diplomatique.... | |||
By the 18th century, classical French usurped Latin in international treaties, starting with the Treaty of Rasstatt (1714), which marked the end of the War of Succession in Spain. This was the beginning of French as a langue diplomatique. | French might have been spoken in the courts of Europe all the way to Russia — it is the language of the nobility, including Catherine II, who used it in correspondence and daily communication — but English was the language of money, and money talks louder than philosophy. The Victorian City of London was the financial center of the world and most of its business was directed outwards and overseas, not domestically. | ||
French might have been spoken in the courts of Europe all the way to Russia — it is the language of the nobility, including Catherine II, who used it in correspondence and daily communication — but English was the language of money, and money talks louder than philosophy. The Victorian City of London was the financial center of the world and most of its business was directed outwards and overseas, not domestically. | |||
[https://www.theguardian.com/news/2018/jul/27/english-language-global-dominance Behemoth, bully, thief: how the English language is taking over the planet] | [https://www.theguardian.com/news/2018/jul/27/english-language-global-dominance Behemoth, bully, thief: how the English language is taking over the planet] | ||
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List of languages by total number of speakers | Wikipedia
List of languages by number of native speakers | Wikipedia
To the great shame of Orthodox Christian expatriats, the languages of Orthodox Christian liturgical celebration (Koine Greek, Church Slavonic, Bulgarian, Romanian, Serbian, Georgian) rank nowhere near the top of either list. Yet, those are the languages of the Orthodox Church in foreign lands, rather than the languages native to those countries where Orthodox Christians have expatriated from Eastern Europe and the Balkans.
Lingua Franca | Wikipedia
At present...[Spanish] is the second most used language in international trade, and the third most used in politics, diplomacy and culture after English and French.
List of Empires | Wikipedia
During the Renaissance, standard Italian was spoken as a language of culture in the main royal courts of Europe, and among intellectuals....
How And Why Did English Supplant French As The World’s Lingua Franca?
By the 18th century, classical French usurped Latin in international treaties, starting with the Treaty of Rasstatt (1714), which marked the end of the War of Succession in Spain. This was the beginning of French as a langue diplomatique....
French might have been spoken in the courts of Europe all the way to Russia — it is the language of the nobility, including Catherine II, who used it in correspondence and daily communication — but English was the language of money, and money talks louder than philosophy. The Victorian City of London was the financial center of the world and most of its business was directed outwards and overseas, not domestically.
Behemoth, bully, thief: how the English language is taking over the planet
Universal language | Wikipedia
The written Classical Chinese 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 Sanskrit 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 Latin language (qua Medieval Latin) 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, trade languages, such as ancient Koine Greek, may be seen as a kind of real universal language, that was used for commerce.
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.
It could be said plausibly that mathematics is the universal language of the world that all are capable of understanding.
• Koine Greek — Hellenistic period 323 BC – 33 BC
• Latin — Roman Empire 27 BC - 476 AD into 1700s
• Italian — Western Europe - Renaissance 1300 - 1700
• Spanish — Spanish Empire 1500 AD - 1800 AD
• French — French Empire - 1600 AD - 1800 AD
• English — British Empire - 1800 AD - 1945 AD
— American Globalism - 1945 AD - present