Language belongs to each of us.
Everyone uses words. What is in about language that makes people so curious?
The answer is that there is almost nothing in our lives that is not touched by
language. We live in and by language. We all speak and we all listen: so we are
all interested in the origin of words, in how they appear and die.
The rise of English is a story of
wonderful success. When Julius Caesar landed in Britain nearly two thousand years
ago, English did not exist. Five hundred years later, in the 5th century,
English was already spoken by the people who inhabited Great Britain
but they were not many, but their English was not the language we know today.
Nearly a thousand years later, at the end of the 16th century, when
William Shakespeare created his works, English was the native language of about
6 million Englishmen. At that time English was not used anywhere else except Great Britain.
Nowadays, four hundred years later, 750
million people all over the world use English, and half of those speak it as a
mother tongue. Of all the 2700 world languages English is one of the richest.
For example, compare English, German and French: English has a vocabulary of
about 500 000 words, German – 185 000, and French – fewer than 100 000. At the
end of the 20th century English is more widely spoken and written,
than any other language has ever been. It has become the language of the planet,
the first truly global language. Three quarters of the world’s mail and its
telexes and telegrammes are in English. More than half of the world’s
scientific periodicals and eighty per cent of the information in the world’s
computers are also in English. English is the main language of business. It is
the language of sports: the official language of the Olympics.
The English language surrounds us like a sea,
and like the waters of a deep sea it is full of mysteries. English is and has
always been constantly changing. Some words die, some change their meanings and
all the time new words appear in the language.
People all over the world use
English because in has become the language of the planet, the first truly
global language
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