What is language and which languages are the most widespread?
- Language, "linguistics", is the use of complex systems of communication that a group of people understands to have the same meaning. The world's most spoken language by number of speakers is Mandarin, while the world's most spoken language by number of countries is English.
- Some languages are very similar because they come from the same family or the same branch.
- English has primarily from the language spoken by thee Germanic tribes invading the British Isles, Angles, Jutes, and Saxons. Vikings and Normans later also invaded England and influenced basic English with their own languages.
- English was published into bibles and dictionary and later spread around the world during the colonization era in which English was being taught with bibles and dictionary being given. English was later spread through globalization and helped by the development of technology.