2012/9/21 John E Clifford
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But consider Latin throughout Western Europe and Arabic in the Middle East and Spanish in Latin America. To be sure, religion has a hand in all that, too, and surely should be in the mix (if separable from conquest and commerce). And, of course, the babu class has to distinguished from the masses in all this. The counter case of China is worth looking at.
Isn't it the case that ideology-driven language learning may become more significant in the future than it was in the past?
Here in Brazil, at least, there is a significant ideological propaganda in favor of Esperanto, and it is the only artificial language that I have seen figuring in a few language schools, and it's the only I have seen being considered for government programs. In spite of the fact that most people probably have never heard about it, Esperanto will be probably the first artificial language they will hear about, if they ever hear about any artifical language in their lives...