User:Niseinet/Languages

Power nations
The more power a nation have, the more influential is their language.

Today USA, Japan, China and Russia are the 4 most powerful nations in World.

Inside Europe

Russia, UK, Germany, France and Italy are the 4 most powerful nations.

English has the simplest grammar after

Most German, Dutch and Nordics can speak in perfect English.

Nordic languages are closely related.

Slavic languages are closely related.

Languages of Balkans share similar Grammar.

Urallic languages are complicated

Basque Celtic are

Arabs, Persian, Turkics, South Asians, Malays are main Muslim nations

Great power is a nation with exceptional military, economic, diplomatic, cultural and soft power; so plays a major and decisive role in world.

English
National language of United States, United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, Ireland, and New Zealand.

Spread due to supremacy of United States after World War 2, British Empire on Colonial Era.

3rd most common native language after Mandarin and Spanish, and most learned second language.

Global Lingua Franca (Bridge language), used when neither speaker is native.

Dominant on internet, travel, entertainment, news, business, high education and diplomacy.

Gives wide access to knowledge and media.

English share many features with Latin language

German, Norse, Dutch, Finn and Estonian people also speak excellent English. Many French, Italian, and former members of Eastern Bloc are learning English.

So learning their languages are redundant.

Russian
National language of Russia. Most spoken Slavic language. Also widely spoken in Ukraine and Belarus.

On Cold War, Russia was the largest and leading member of Soviet Union.

Soviet Union was a communist superpower and main rival to United States. Today Russia still a major power.

Spoken in less extent in former member of Soviet Union and Eastern Bloc.

Other Slavic languages are closely related and mutually intelligible, as Polish, Serbo-Croatian or Czech.