Category: Nicholas Ostler
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According to Nicholas Ostler in The Last Lingua Franca: English Until the Return of Babel (2010): The online communities that use languages other than English have grown meteorically in the first decade of the twenty-first century. From 2000 to 2009,…
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Nicholas Ostler answers in The Last Lingua Franca: English Until the Return of Babel (2010): The decline of English, when it begins, will not seem of great moment.International English is a lingua franca, and by its nature, a lingua franca…
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Nicholas Ostler answers in The Last Lingua Franca: English Until the Return of Babel (2010): Chinese, like all the great languages of the modern world excepting English and French, remains very much a localized language in eastern and southeastern Asia,…
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Nicholas Ostler has a new book out: The Last Lingua Franca: English Until the Return of Babel (2010). In it, he argues that English, today’s global lingua franca, will die out, following the pattern of former great languages Sanskrit and Latin. He…
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