1.+A+world+language

====**English - a world language** Humans were able to talk 300,000 years ago, new research has shown. New research has shown that we were able to talk 300,000 years ago. We were able to pronounce some basis vowel sounds like ”aa”, ”ee” and ”oo”.==== ====English is a world language which is spoken today in parts of Europe and some islands. It is spoken as a first language by 370 to 400 million people. It is also used as a second language by a similar number of people, and as a foreign language by hundreds of millions more. English is often called a 'world language'. English is also used as a second language and as an official language, for exampel they use it in the medias; education, business, government, radio and television. The language became popular in America. The language is also used for many different kinds of international communication; science, medicine, and business often communicate in English. It is also the language of much of the world's pop music and films.====

Traveling by airplane made more international business possible.
====The telephone and the computer made the communication faster. Many people also wanted to do business with the US so they had to speak English. The 'languages' of international sea and air traffic control, known as 'Seaspeak' and 'Airspeak', use English. The spread of English around the world began with the British settlement of North America, the Caribbean, Australia, and Asia in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. The English language became popular because the US was rich, and in order to do this they had to speak English. 309-400 million people all over the world speaks English as a first language and 199-1,400 millions uses English as their second language. 100 of millions more uses english as a foreign language. English is a West Germanic language that originated from the Anglo-Frisian dialects brought to Britain by Germanic invaders from various parts of what is now northwest Germany and the Netherlands. Initially, Old English was a diverse Group of dialects, reflecting the varier origins of the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms of England====

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_language
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