English - World’s most powerful language

Q.  English is the dominant language of how many G7 nations?
- Published on 12 Dec 16

a. 3
b. 4
c. 5
d. 6

ANSWER: 3
 
English - World’s most powerful languageThe 2016 World Power Language Index in the first week of Dec 2016 announced that English language is the most powerful in the world.

Index was published by the World Economic Forum. It ranked English first in the top 10 most powerful languages in the world.

Hindi language was ranked 10th in the 2016 PLI

The top 6 languages in the ranking were official languages of the UN

The remaining four languages include the two other BRIC languages Portuguese and Hindi and the tongues of 2 economic heavyweights - Germany and Japan

The basis for the rankings were 20 indicators that sought to measure the usefulness of a language to the representative human being.

English Language
  • Dominant language of 3 G7 nations- US, UK and Canada.
  • British legacy gives English a global footprint.
  • It is the world’s lingua franca.
  • 8 of the 10 global financial centres are English speaking cities
  • 4 of the 10 most competitive economies have English as an official language.

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