In the history of human civilization and languages, human beings and languages had an inseparable relationship and simultaneous, unimaginable development in terms of civilization, communication etc as they are today. In the beginning, the significant development was the evolution of human civilization and the evolution of languages. A language is the product of human mind and it is not an invention. Man used sounds and gestures to communicate with others in the beginning and later he used so many languages. All these languages descended from one root language. There are many language families, according to historians and linguists, in this world. The languages in a family share linguistic characteristics such as sounds, words, grammatical patterns. We have thousands of languages spoken across the world and all these languages belong to language families except a few.
The most prominent among the language families is Indo-European family of languages. The languages such as English, French, Spanish, Russian Hindi, Bengali etc belong to this family. These languages are spoken and used by more than 70% of the world population today. English became very popular among them and an international language in 20th century. In this globalization scenario, English is widely used and considered a global language. This paper focuses on the evolution of a language, language families, the importance of languages for communication and the rise of English as a global language.
Communication, English, evolution, globalization, global language, language
