Thursday, October 8, 2015
Language is
communication, English is the most widely used language in international
communication. At least it is the case today. Question, why
English became the international language, why should the English language?
There are
several reasons why the English language be used as an international language. Among because
English is one of the oldest languages in the world and comes from the plains
british which is about a century to 8. In addition to the English language is
the oldest language in the world, the English language has a vocabulary
development is very rapid. According to a
joint research team of Harvard University researchers and Google noted the
addition of vocabulary oldest in the world it reaches 8,500 words per year. Now the total number has
reached 1.022 million words. it is the amount of vocabulary
is much more compared to our beloved country. when compared to Indonesian. According to
the language center Kemendikbud who was recently completed and published KBBI
(Dictionary of Indonesian) fourth edition with a total amount of vocabulary
contained in it ranged 91,000 vocabulary, dictionary fourth edition is a
development of the previous edition which only covers 82,000 vocabulary. indeed the growing amount of
vocabulary is the one that becomes the benchmark whether or not a language is
regarded as an international language. Certainly without incorporating
elements of regional languages in Indonesia.
In addition the United Kingdom
is a country that is advanced This is evident from the innovation and
dissemination of knowledge that many of the western countries. Scientists,
essays, invention, and innovation in western countries there development is
very fast. First applies so when the
scientific world dominated Arab> Arabic, Latin> Latin, Greek and so on. The use of English becomes as
mandatory if you want to follow the developments.
The fact also said that the
United States is the country that most colonies around the world. Therefore, the English language
is very familiar and widely used in many countries, especially the colonial
British. Hence  English more quickly
spread to various parts of the world.
There are so
many in fact the reason why English become the international language. Scientifically and conventional
in its development now.