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Have you ever been on holiday and realised that on your trip, you couldn't communicate with someone, and wished that there was a universal language that all of humanity could use? How would one work, and how would we implement it? Believe it or not, this globalised society has not been the first to want a universal language. The ancient Greeks and Romans too wanted one quite badly, and gave it a unique name, Lingua Franca. But yet, even as late as the Victorian era wanted a common language. (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); Who Was L.L. Zamenhof and what did he do for Universal Languages? L.L. Zamenhof was a Polish-born Linguist, who created the Esperanto Language. He took apart European Languages, and synthesised a brand new one, he had h...

Chinese is the most spoken language in the world with roughly 1.2 billion native speakers. Much more than the measly 360 million native English speakers, or the measly 350 million native Spanish speakers. So this begs the question, why isn’t Mandarin, the Lingua Franca? There are many reasons why English is the Lingua Franca and not one of the many dialects of Chinese. One of the largest may be the fact that 1.5 billion people speak English as either a first or second language. This is more than the speakers of the many dialects of Chinese. And plus, the 1.5 billion speakers of English, are dispersed throughout the World, not just situated in one country. In this case, only China and some of its surrounding countries. Most people know that if a Uruguayan man, a Russian man and ...

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