Definition:
World
English
The English language including all of its regional
varieties, such as North American, Australian, New Zealand, and South African
English.
A basic form of English, consisting of
features common to all regional varieties.
Panglish:
Etymology-
A blend of the
Greek pan (all) and English, coined by linguist and science-fiction
author Suzette Haden Elgin
It is English but not as
we know it.
A new global tongue called "Panglish" is expected to take over in the decades ahead, experts say.
Linguists say the language of Shakespeare and Dickens is evolving into a new, simplified form of English which will be spoken by billions of people around the world.
The changes are not being driven by Britons, Americans or Australians, but the growing number of people who speak English as a second language, New Scientist reports.
According to linguists, Panglish will be similar to the versions of English used by non-native speakers. As the new language takes over, "the" will become "ze", "friend" will be "frien" and the phrase "he talks" will become "he talk".
By 2010 around two billion people - or a third of the world's population - will speak English as a second language. In contrast, just 350 million people will speak it as a first language.
Most interactions in English now take place between non-English speakers, according to Dr Jurgen Beneke of the University of Hildesheim, Germany.
A new global tongue called "Panglish" is expected to take over in the decades ahead, experts say.
Linguists say the language of Shakespeare and Dickens is evolving into a new, simplified form of English which will be spoken by billions of people around the world.
The changes are not being driven by Britons, Americans or Australians, but the growing number of people who speak English as a second language, New Scientist reports.
According to linguists, Panglish will be similar to the versions of English used by non-native speakers. As the new language takes over, "the" will become "ze", "friend" will be "frien" and the phrase "he talks" will become "he talk".
By 2010 around two billion people - or a third of the world's population - will speak English as a second language. In contrast, just 350 million people will speak it as a first language.
Most interactions in English now take place between non-English speakers, according to Dr Jurgen Beneke of the University of Hildesheim, Germany.
Panglish – A Global Language of the Future?
03/29/2008 — Under the Hill
The
English language of today, whether in America, Britain or Australia, will
become a global language of the future, known as Panglish, at least
according to linguist experts, reported in UK’s daily mail report. Who have
studied how common English dialects are finding their ways into most
non-English-speaking countries, eventually evolving into a simplified English
language commonly spoken by different peoples all over the world, perhaps
within 50 to 100 years.
Imagine
understanding and deciphering English dialects from different peoples,
especially those who are already abandoning their native dialects for a
language anyone who can understand, read, write and speak it. The beauty of the
English language is that it’s the most hybridizing, ever-evolving language in
the world, as it has been that way since its beginning from the Anglo-Saxons, a
variety of Germanic tribes which took over Britain in around the 5th century
A.D.
Latin,
or Vulgar Latin, was, primarily, the common spoken language of the
Roman-dominated Europe, which Latin dialects spoken by Germans, Goths, Danes,
Celtics, and Spaniards gave rise to the Romance languages: French, Spanish and
Italian. Believe it or not, the English language is actually based on the
amalgamation of regional dialects spoken in Latin, Vulgar Latin, Germanic,
Gothic, Celtic, Greek and Spaniard, a process that took about 8 centuries of
lingual evolution until the Norman Conquest of England in 1066.
You
know, nowadays, the French are so touchy about protecting its vaunted romance
language from the corruption and spread of the English language and wanted the
world to police it (an impossible, ridiculous task if there ever such a thing).
The greatest irony of that it was the French, and most especially the
French-speaking Normans, who actually helped improvised, refined and shaped the
Anglo-Saxon (Old English) language for 3-4 centuries after the Conquest. The
best example of that is Geoffrey Chaucer’s famous work, The Canterbury Tales.
However, it was King Edward III of England who, concerned about the unfair
advantage of his English-speaking subjects with the French-speaking noble,
wealthy class, decided to make English the official language in the government,
the court system and business affairs in mid-14th century. After that, the
English language evolved gradually, incorporating spoken words and dialects
from around the world through the centuries.
However,
it was William Shakespeare and his famous plays that popularized the English
language, much to the effects, so profound that it had influenced the shaping
of the King James Bible in an English version that can be surprisingly
understood by any people (if properly taught) anywhere in the world – of which
much was due to the British Navy sailors, bringing along their English version
Bibles to pass the times and to spread the gospels of Jesus the Christ to the
world across the seven seas.
I
will be curious to see how the English language of today will evolve into
Panglish and I will be amused by the fact that the peoples of the world would
be commonly speaking a global language derived from the ferocious Anglo-Saxon
barbarians of the 5th century AD.
Linguist Suzette Haden
Elgin sees two possible outcomes: "Panglish - a single English that would
have dialects but would display at least a rough consensus about its grammar -
or scores of wildly varying English’s all around the globe, many or most of
them heading toward mutual unintelligibility."
