LINGUIST List 15.3456
Fri Dec 10 2004
Media: Article in The Independent on Spread of English
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Article in The Independent on Spread of English
Message 1: Article in The Independent on Spread of English
Date: 09-Dec-2004
From: Neil Salmond <neillinguistlist.org>
Subject: Article in The Independent on Spread of English
'Half the world's population will be speaking or learning English
by 2015, researchers say. Two billion people are expected to start
learning English within a decade and three billion will speak it,
says a British Council estimate.'
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/environment/story.jsp?story=591193
Linguistic Field(s): Sociolinguistics
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