Language for the Whole World.
From time to time, different natural languages have been used as universal tongues. As result of conquest or colonialism subjugated nations have been forced to abandon their own language or have gradually adopted the language of the conqueror; conversely, occupying forces have often gradually assimilated the languages of the conquered, as was the case of the Normans in England. In other cases, people neighbouring on a commercially, culturally, or politically pre-eminent nation have voluntarily, although usually only partly, adopted the language of the nation as auxiliary to their own. By such means the Latin language came closest of all native languages to becoming Read More...