“[T]he fate of all languages which attain the status of a lingua franca is that they will, in time, decline. Just as large groups once used Latin, Greek or Phoenician, the idea that English is somehow immune to the same fate, so Ostler argues, comes from an ignorance of our linguistic past.”
Book review: The last Lingua franca: English until the return of Babel – Scotsman.com News.
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