English - Global Language

Around 400 million speak English as their first language worldwide. Currently, it is the official language in about 100 countries. Colonization by the British empire made submerge languages all around Africa, and after the second world war the dominance of USA ensured the continuing of the english expansion.

Nowadays, English has been adopted in International organizations to improve communication efficiency. English is dominant in a way that no other language has been before.

In our current century, around one-fourth of the whole world's population can communicate in some level by english. It has now become the language of the internet, being 80% of the worldwide electronically stored information being recorded in it, according to David Graddol, a linguist and researcher.

"Languages are undergoing a global extinction crisis that greatly exceeds the pace of species extinction," said Prof. Harrison, affiliate of Living Tounges institute for Endangered Languages in Oregon. So, what is there to expect of the future? Some believe English will become so globalized it will overpower the rest, becoming our only language around the world. Yet we could instead expect becoming globally multilingual with most people becoming competent in several languages, including english. Another view is english disappearing completely and developing local versions of it such as Spanglish, Hinglish and Chinglish.