A WORLD LANGUAGE
The Trend Toward Using English WIDELY-SPOKEN TONGUE
Time and again, mostly during periods of strained relationship between the nations, the demand for a universal language receives a new stimulus. Many attempts have been made to invent an artificial world language, tlie most successi'ul among them being Volapuk and Esperauto. The former language 'was superseded as a suggested veliicle i'or international com- ■ munication by Esperanto. English has now becoiue the second language for all practical purposes in most i'oreigu countries. It contains both Teutonic- and Latin elements and has a very simple grammar. It is already- the most widely-diffused tongue in the world. 200,000,000 people claiming English as their mother tongue. English is the accepted medium oi communication "throughout the East, and in Europe it has been introduced as the second language in most sehools, a knowledge of Frencb and .German being considered of less urgent iniportance than was previously the case. Tlie latest instance of this trend toward. tho natural adoption of English as tlie world language is furnished by Itussia, which recently decided to supplant German by English as the first foreign language.
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 156, 20 July 1937, Page 6
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