A labored language is now a life insurance, it can open many doors in life. The way you communicate is
your cover letter to other people, and it’s important that they receive a
positive feeling from the outset. But nowadays, it doesn’t only
matters that you know how to use your own language. Thanks to globalization and needs
that have appeared throughout the years, we have had the need to travel, discover
the world and seek new opportunities.
To
go deep into that big world, you need to know how to handle more or less any
situation that may crop up. And for that, we have to know
how to communicate, how to transmit our wishes and needs, our ideas and
thoughts to the world around us. As we see, it isn’t enough dominating
our language, we need to know other languages to communicate in the different
countries that we visit.
But
what if we could establish an international official language? Surely it would
be easier. In all places, people would
know that language. So wherever you go, you just need to know that
international language (apart from your mother tongue) and it would have solved
everything. Obviously, you don’t have to forget your mother tongue because it
would make disappear the different cultures that coexist nowadays in our world,
and no one wants that.
If
we had to choose a language to set it as the official universal language, we
should consider several points. It must be a widely
known language, spoken in so many different locations. It should also be relatively
easy to learn to facilitate that its learning reaches all the populations. And finally, if the language is
similar to other languages besides fulfills the last conditions,
it would be easier to choose it.
| Pos. | Lengua (idioma) | Hablantes como lengua materna (Ethnologue 1999) | Hablantes como 1ª y 2ª lengua (Ethnologue 1999) | Total hablantes (Krysstal 2010). | Mapas lingüísticos |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Chino mandarín | 874.000.000 | 1.052.000.000 | 1.151.000.000 |  |
| 2 | Español | 358.000.000 | 417.000.000 | 500.000.000 (400 mill. nativos) |  |
| 3 | Inglés | 341.000.000 | 508.000.000 | 1.000.000.000 (375 mill. nativos) | .png) |
Consulting information in my mother tongue, we can see that Chinese is the language that fulfills better the first condition. It is the most spoken language in the world. Its disadvantage is that it is the most spoken because China's population is the largest, so therefore the number of people who spoke the language also becomes larger. Moreover, it isn’t known at several places, his power is only concentrated in countries that speak the language.
On the other hand, English isn’t as spoken like Chinese, but it is much more popular. It is spoken in America, the United Kingdom, Australia, Africa… And it’s learned as a second language in many countries. Its similarities to other languages like German, its global popularity and its relatively ease of learning (compared for example with Japanese or Korean) make this language the perfect candidate to be established as a world language.
On the other hand, English isn’t as spoken like Chinese, but it is much more popular. It is spoken in America, the United Kingdom, Australia, Africa… And it’s learned as a second language in many countries. Its similarities to other languages like German, its global popularity and its relatively ease of learning (compared for example with Japanese or Korean) make this language the perfect candidate to be established as a world language.
And
if English doesn’t work well, we have a second candidate, my mother tongue:
Spanish. Looking at the above table, we see that it is the most spoken after
Chinese and English, and the most popular in different countries after English.
I
hope that someday we won’t matter our culture differences and we’ll be able to
establish a world language. That day, borders won’t mind, everyone would share a
very big thing: their own LANGUAGE.
