Draft:International language

A international language is a language used as a means of communication between speakers of different countries and/or of different cultures.

This means of communication or communication vehicle could be a official language that fulfills this role of facilitating communication between people who would otherwise be difficult to understand each other, due to, for example, having different mother tongues, but undoubtedly and in this case, this would give an advantage to the native speakers. Or on the contrary, it could be a language invented precisely for the indicated use, such as esperanto, in which case all speakers would have the international language as their second language.

An international language could be defined as a language with the following characteristics:

• A large number of speakers distributed across several countries
• An important part of its speakers are non-natives who use it as a second language (lingua franca).
• It is not linked to a specific ethnic or religious group
• It is used for commercial, diplomatic, scientific relations, etc.

Chinese

This language is divided 2 different languages ​​between Simplified Chinese and Traditional Chinese, they can be written romanized, The Chinese language is spoken in China, Taiwan and Singapore

Russian

It is a language that is spoken in many countries of Europe and Asia, is the official language in Russia, Belarus, Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan. It is widely spoken in the countries that made up the Soviet Union. 278,000,000 people speak it.

Portuguese

A language considered international is Portuguese, officer in Portugal, Brazil and the member countries of the Community of Portuguese Speaking Countries Portuguese is also officially spoken in Timor Leste and Macau, China. There are still thousands of speakers of this language in Goa, India. The importance of the Portuguese language is due to the commercial activity of Portugal, which has resulted in it being the official language of several countries during the century.xv and the current economic participation of Brazil which is already the fifth strongest economy in the world. Consequently, the Portuguese language is officially spoken on five continents.

French

First tax in France by official acts in 1539, through the Ordenanza of Villers-Cotterêts Signed by Francis I of France, he French It progressively imposed itself as a diplomatic language and as an international language, first in Europe, and then worldwide, especially under the impetus of colonial conquests.

Outside the French-speaking space, its supranational status is currently increasingly reduced, in favor of the advancement of English, after the end of the Second World War.

Spanish

He Spanish Language is widely present in Latin America, but also in Spain, where it originated in the disappeared Crown of Castile, and in other areas of the world such as Equatorial Guinea or the Occidental Sahara. Currently, it gained new importance in the economic and diplomatic world with the appearance of emerging economies and suppliers of raw materials in Latin America, as well as the growing and rapid implementation in USA as a result of the increase in migratory movements from Spanish-speaking countries on the American continent.

Arabic

The Arabic is considered an international language because of its influence in West Asia and North Africa, where it supplanted other languages, in addition to its religious function.

English

The colonial conquests of United Kingdom, then added the creation of the Commonwealth, and later added the rise of USA as the first world power, they made English an undisputed international language. During the centuryxx, the English language progressively imposed itself as the dominant international language,status that preserves at the beginning of the centuryxxi, although it is beginning to be displaced by languages ​​with a growing number of speakers, such as Spanish or French.

Esperanto

First Esperanto manual (Ludwik Lejzer Zamenhof, 1887, French edition)

Is a constructed language which appeared at the end of the centuryxix with the name ofLanguage International (international language), the esperanto It was created with the purpose of making international communication simpler and more equitable. Despite its inherent advantages, Esperanto still does not play an important role in international trade since it has a number of speakers that does not exceed three million.

It was under the name of International Language, which appeared in 1887, the first textbook in Esperanto, published by its creator Ludwik Zamenhof Lejzer under the pseudonym Dr. Esperanto.

Other languages

In addition to the languages ​​mentioned above, other languages ​​meet the characteristics of an International Language.

For example, him German, which is the official language from six countries (Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg and Belgium; besides national language in Namibia and regional South Tyrol). It is also a working language of the European Union along with French and English.

The suajili, vehicular language Bantu, which is spoken in several East African countries.

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