The world language.
Part of a special section on what has mattered most during the millennium. The most widely spoken language in the world is English—approximately 20 to 25 percent of the world's 6 billion people are able to use it—and it is spreading further each year. The growth in the film and television industrie...
| Publicado en: | Economist Vol. 353; no. 8145; pp. 85 - 86 |
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| Formato: | Artículo |
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Economist Newspaper Limited
12/23/1999
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