Pete Alex Harris🦡🕸️🌲/∞🪐∫ on Nostr: npub1g0tuf…3tvm4 npub1437d9…kranm The number of countries that had it forced on ...
npub1g0tuf634rz4suczwj7kgnecr6cyt0eu9xmp3sp0fku68mqehq4msp3tvm4 (npub1g0t…tvm4) npub1437d992cqszvsnzpuy7jnec2w90dk4tfj57echyahg6ffu9y9t2s9kranm (npub1437…ranm)
The number of countries that had it forced on them is one factor, the economic importance of some of those countries is another. I'm sceptical that there's any linguistic explanation, is all.
The various peoples speaking South American languages didn't adopt English as a second language, nor the peoples in Russia speaking various Uralic and Turkic languages. They used the second language of whichever empire absorbed them, same as southern Europe did.
The number of countries that had it forced on them is one factor, the economic importance of some of those countries is another. I'm sceptical that there's any linguistic explanation, is all.
The various peoples speaking South American languages didn't adopt English as a second language, nor the peoples in Russia speaking various Uralic and Turkic languages. They used the second language of whichever empire absorbed them, same as southern Europe did.