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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;IvaPan, post: 6142387, member: 78949&quot;]Kentworld, I agree that English explorers and colonisers made English language so widespread. And there are other languages of explorers and colonisers also wide spread. As you pointed, Spain, France, Portugal as former empires spread their language among their colonies. But IMO this is not enough to become the lingua franca of the world, i.e. the language used by various foreign nations to communicate not only with the language speakers but also among themselves. </p><p>&quot;A lingua franca is a common language serving as a regular means of communication relating to scientific, technological, and academic information between different linguistic groups in a multilingual speech community.&quot; (c.) Lingua franca becomes the language&nbsp; of the world&#039;s strongest power in any sense, economic, political and military.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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