Mandarin is world's most widely spoken language

[lamlap]

who edited my title????????????????????????

Mandarin = Chinese

 

[Loyus]

The Western World made their mark so significant that the legacy will go on for eons. The Renaissance, Industrial Revolution, etc. All in a package.

And to be honest, the Chinese are barely making that mark today.

Well , aami Chinese angle theke bolchilaam na..

I meant earlier the Eastern civilizations were powerful..
Renassaiance and Industrial revolution made West dominant and because of English imperialism the language is widely spoken

But with increased globalisation can you say the same in future ...

As we grow closer who knows.. a new way to communicate might develop.. English might be redefined.. our food, dressing sense might change

So I am always unsure of the future...

One thing I might be sure.. The simpler the thing.. thje more widely it will be accepted across the globe..

From that angle again Chinese language dominate korte paarbe na

Adaptabilitly kom hobe

Ki mone hoi ?

 

[Jade]

English all the way. Mandarin may look huge, but we also have to take India into consideration. In short time India is going over take China in terms of Population. English being the official language of India, and number of institutes teaching in India in English growing manifold, I think some time down the future, English will over take Mandarin. Even Chinese are adopting English in a major way.

 

[AADHAAR]

Confucius Institutes are a good first step to promoting the study of Mandarin in the outside world.

Confucius Institute - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

So, Chinsee-Dragon doesn't mind quoting WIKIPEDIA for his own convenience.

Now you don't remember your own words:

The Hindu–Arabic numeral system[1] or Hindu numeral system[2] is a positional decimal numeral system developed between the 1st and 5th centuries by Indian mathematicians, adopted by Persian (Al-Khwarizmi's circa 825 book On the Calculation with Hindu Numerals) and Arab mathematicians (Al-Kindi's circa 830 volumes On the Use of the Indian Numerals), and spread to the western world by the High Middle Ages.

The system is based on ten (originally nine) different glyphs. The symbols (glyphs) used to represent the system are in principle independent of the system itself. The glyphs in actual use are descended from Indian Brahmi numerals, and have split into various typographical variants since the Middle Ages.


Hindu

Chinse-Dragon replies !!

^^^ Oh yeah, Wikipedia.

- Babylonians were the first to invent the concept of zero.
- Arabic numerals are important but not necessarily used, since all languages have their own numeral system.

Since the biggest Indian claim (that they invented zero) is false, what else do they have to show?

 

[kkacer]

50% western young people learning Chinese now