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   Currently there are around 6 000 
languages on our planet. Approximately 
every two weeks one language is being 
completely lost forever. Do you really 
think that we have to pass these 230 
years to realize that we need only one 
language to be able to communicate as 
    an intelligent civilization?

 Historically, English originated from the fusion of 
languages and dialects, now collectively termed 
Old English, which were brought to the eastern 
coast of Great Britain by Germanic (Anglo-Saxon) 
settlers by the 5th century – with the word English 
being derived from the name of the Angles, and 
ultimately from their ancestral region of Angeln (in 
what is now Schleswig-Holstein). A significant number 
of English words are constructed based on roots from 
Latin, because Latin in some form was the lingua 
franca of the Christian Church and of European 
intellectual life.

 Modern English, sometimes described as the first 
global lingua franca, is the dominant language or 
in some instances even the required international 
language of communications, science, information 
technology, business, seafaring, aviation, 
entertainment, radio and diplomacy. Its spread 
beyond the British Isles began with the growth 
of the British Empire, and by the late 19th century 
its reach was truly global.

 English is a West Germanic language that 
originated from the Anglo-Frisian and Old Saxon 
dialects brought to Britain by Germanic settlers from 
various parts of what is now northwest Germany,
Denmark and the Netherlands.


 Approximately 375 million people speak English as 
their first language. English today is probably the 
third largest language by number of native speakers, 
after Mandarin Chinese and Spanish. However, when
combining native and non-native speakers it is 
probably the most commonly spoken language in the 
world, though possibly second to a combination of the 
Chinese languages (depending on whether or not 
distinctions in the latter are classified as 'languages' 
or 'dialects').