Globalisation of the English language

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by Lyndsey Webb1 view·Updated Sep 24, 2020

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  1. the English language, all of us he known and use
  2. it every day.
  3. But where exactly did it come from?
  4. On what impact has it had on other nations?
  5. Well, this is what we'll be exploring today.
  6. First, I wish to define a few key concepts in
  7. which we use throughout our presentation, the first being diffusion
  8. in which means to transfer or dispersal of cultural elements
  9. from one group of people to another.
  10. The next adoption, which is the acceptance of cultural elements
  11. and groups of people to another on the last adaption,
  12. which is the adjustment in response to a changed environment.
  13. Just a quick recap of the English language is the
  14. official language of around 53 nations and is spoken by
  15. around 20% of the world's population, or around 1.5 billion
  16. people. It is also the most common second language I
  17. don't know.
  18. Three English language originated from the Anglo freeze and die
  19. elects brought to Britain in the mid 5th and 7th
  20. centuries by Anglo Saxon migrants from what is now known
  21. as Germany, southern Denmark and the Netherlands.
  22. Around 20% of the world's population is now English speaking.
  23. So how do we come from this one group in
  24. Britain? Well, most of this could be attributed to English
  25. colonization. English colonization began in the 16th century, with Jamestown,
  26. Virginia, on spread throughout the world in the following years.
  27. Yeah, this map shows the English colonies in pink.
  28. In 1914 you can see that Australia and New Zealand
  29. are both English colonies.
  30. It has a major impact on the languages in which
  31. all colonies now speak advancements in transport and telecommunications.
  32. When the British first colonized Jamestown, Virginia, they used it
  33. to travel to seize and spread the English language.
  34. Advancements in these vessels allowed the English colonies to travel
  35. further and more efficient.
  36. Well, recently, transport such as airplanes and modernize ships have
  37. been used by non English speakers, traveled to English speaking
  38. countries and learn the length.
  39. Telecommunications such as the Internet and phones have also greatly
  40. contributed to the generation and dispersion of the English language
  41. things. Language has dominated the Internet.
  42. This graph shows that the most use language on the
  43. Internet in 2020 is English was over 25%.
  44. Can the role played by MNCs, multinational corporations and transnational
  45. institutions have spread across the world, since most of these
  46. air English speaking based while they spread globally, they also
  47. spread the English language to new nations is almost a
  48. necessity for people speak English if they want to be
  49. in the global work is many international companies expect their
  50. employees to speak fluent English.
  51. This is because it is the global language business.
  52. Most economic trading happens in English, as it is the
  53. most widely spoken language.
  54. Reynolds Samsung Microsoft in Beijing has English as their official
  55. corporate language.
  56. The rock the role played Yeah, how very accessible to
  57. learn with the help of media and at such as
  58. Jiro Lingo.
  59. Do Lingo teaches a wide variety of languages, but its
  60. most popular for teaching English is the most studied language
  61. around the world, with 53% of old uses studying English.
  62. This Match books shows the most popular language studied.
  63. Onge illegal in each country.
  64. English is the most popular language out of all the
  65. countries. It is shown a screen.
  66. Second, most common language learned it's French, which is shown
  67. it's blue and the third in Spanish, which is yellow.
  68. This math is similar but shows the percentage of dual
  69. lingo. Users learning English in each country 70% 75% off
  70. the use in Russia and the Middle East are learning
  71. English. Yeah, okay.
  72. Australia is one of the English colonized nations occurring in
  73. 17 88 when the British fleet tres came that declared
  74. the land as tear analogous.
  75. This means, they declared that there are no residents off
  76. the land.
  77. This was detrimental to the aboriginal people as there were
  78. over 750,000 Aboriginals inhabiting the land with over 250 different
  79. languages. After colonization, the English took over, starting their own
  80. systems and taking complete control over the nation.
  81. The aboriginal people were completely disregarded in this situation.
  82. The use of aboriginal languages was banned in certain areas
  83. until the 19 seventies, whilst the stolen generation also occurred,
  84. which forbid parents of the teach their Children their language.
  85. The stolen generation occurred in 1910 to 1970 in which
  86. aboriginal Children removed from their homes and placing camps run
  87. by English people to train them to be servants of
  88. the British.
  89. Because of this, the Children were no longer exposed to
  90. the aboriginal languages were first forced to learn English to
  91. serve the British.
  92. By this time, the whole country was speaking English, so
  93. for ever since to survive, English became necessary to receive
  94. any help that they needed.
  95. Because of this, the 250 languages slowly became a 60
  96. in which is now healthy.
  97. Today think although other languages are still used today, they're
  98. slowly becoming extinct as people are not teaching a language.
  99. Allowing the language is much due to English being more
  100. practical in our nation.
  101. There are only 3.3% of the average Australian population, in
  102. which aboriginal on only 10% of this 3.3% able to
  103. speak the indigenous languages with less people knowing the language
  104. there also lets people to teach the language, causing further
  105. extension. New Zealand was also colonized by the British in
  106. 17 69 although the process and treatment was different.
  107. When the British took over, they created the Rotondi Treaty.
  108. This meant that the British had to accept that marry
  109. tribes had the right to organize themselves and protect their
  110. way of life.
  111. It required the government to act recently and in good
  112. faith towards the marry people.
  113. It made the government responsible for helping to address grievances
  114. and establish equality between the principal and that all media
  115. owners are equal under the law.
  116. This is different to Australia as the indigenous people were
  117. neglected and disrespected in our situation.
  118. The respect of this has greatly impacted the preservation of
  119. the marry language.
  120. This can also be seen through the statistics that 4.1%
  121. of the population of New Zealand could hold a full
  122. conversation in marry.
  123. This is although this is still not great.
  124. It is a lot higher than Australia.
  125. This can also be seen through the use of language
  126. in their lives.
  127. Most street science will have both languages There also TV
  128. channels in which you're all in Maori and to have
  129. certain jobs in sectors like the government.
  130. You're you're expected to speak certain phrases in Maori when
  131. making a comparison between the two nations, although there are
  132. some difference since both were colonized by the British and
  133. have seen a large reduction in the usage of knowledge
  134. of the native language.
  135. Although the respect and treatment of the marries in New
  136. Zealand allowed for the language to be preserved somewhat in
  137. the future, is predicted that every third person on the
  138. planet was speaking by 2050 around half the world's population,
  139. so you have to speak English.
  140. This rise in English speakers could occur because more and
  141. more people see it valuable to learn English as a
  142. second language English, they can only speak a couple of
  143. words. According to Cambridge University in China, after 350 million
  144. peoples have at least some knowledge of English on up
  145. to 100 million people in India due to increased travel
  146. and migration, there could be more influence from other nations
  147. in the English language over the years, even could alter
  148. how some countries speak English.
  149. This has already happened in most nations.
  150. They have their own variety of words and their own
  151. ways of speaking them, for example, the main English speaking
  152. countries Australia, America, England and Canada or have very different
  153. ways of speaking different words.
  154. They used to describe different things, and they all have
  155. specific specific accent in the future.
  156. These different ways of speaking will enhance and become more
  157. unique. But this also means that part of the English
  158. language would be lost and forgotten.
  159. This is because they will become outdated and new words
  160. will be will be created to replace him in the
  161. future. Native what native languages will disappear due to the
  162. rise off the English language implant packs and implications as
  163. seen in the case studies, the English colonization around the
  164. world has resulted in the English language taking over First
  165. Nation languages.
  166. This has had a large impact on the preservation of
  167. languages throughout the world.
  168. On a local level for Australia, this is highly impacted
  169. the preservation of many indigenous languages.
  170. The elders who know the language completely are struggling to
  171. teach the language before they passed away on much of
  172. the language could be lost due to to the to
  173. the stolen generation and the lack of time to treat
  174. teach their Children the language before passing.
  175. This means that the languages are dying out and there
  176. are no longer than 250 different languages in which we
  177. started with on a national level.
  178. The overall languages left around 60 languages left in the
  179. nation, meaning that much of their stories in history I
  180. lost you to the language barrier.
  181. Just the English colonization and the role of the government
  182. in the past internationally.
  183. This has become much of an issue due to English
  184. becoming one of the most common languages in the world,
  185. and therefore the loss of first nation languages will continue
  186. if the work is not completed to restore each language
  187. overall, the spread of the English language has negatively impacted
  188. the president raging off first nationwide through colonization, the spread
  189. of MNCs and the increase in technology native languages have
  190. vanished. English language if diffused through the message of colonization,
  191. I was forcefully adopted.
  192. The language is further adapted by our nation over time
  193. by introducing introducing slang in over 400 indigenous words such
  194. as didgeridoo.
  195. Thank you for listening to our presentation.