International Languages
In the midst of world linguistic , a number of international languages have been proposed as a means for solving world problems thought to be caused by misunderstandings of . Sometimes, existing natural languages are advanced to fill this . These LWCs (Languages of Wider ) - such as English or French, already spoken by many people as a second language as well as by many native speakers - have proponents who hold that everyone should know one or the other. More often, efforts have been made to artificial languages for everyone to learn. A number of artificial languages have enjoyed a of vogue, then fallen into disuse. One artificial language, Esperanto, has had a relatively high success rate because it has a regular grammar, an "easy" pronunciation, and a vocabulary based on Latin and ancient Greek and on the Romance and Germanic languages. To speakers of languages of other families, however, Esperanto seems less international and is harder to speak and learn. One new language proposed for international use is LOGLAN (standing for language), a laboratory- language that is claimed to be -free and to allow people to speak their thoughts clearly and . It has a small sound system and few grammatical rules, and its vocabulary is drawn from the eight most widely spoken languages in the world today, including Hindi, Japanese, Chinese, as well as Russian and other Indo-European languages.

Even if a perfect international language could be devised and adopted, however, it is by no means certain that it could problems. Moreover, the thought that relate languages to the ideas that people express with them are still not understood. Even if everyone did learn Esperanto or LOGLAN and used these languages in international or public dealings, it is probable that of language change would soon take over. The world would then have dialects of Esperanto or some other international language, leading to even further or to pidginisation, creolisation, and so forth. Indeed, English and French in different parts of the world have already become ; the English spoken in India, for example, is different both from American English and from British English.