Dr. Diamond said that agriculture did not drive all language expansions -- the Inuit's spread across the Arctic is an example of that -- but that "for most of the widespread language families the driving force for the spread has been agricultural".
English has become one of the most popular languages in the world and is recognized as the most widespread language for communication in education, technology, business, diplomacy, science, and sports, as well as the high-tech and service-oriented industries, and many other fields (Zhang 2011).
Written in the Hebrew alphabet, it became one of the world's most widespread languages, appearing in most countries with a Jewish population by the 19th century.
On this map produced by Ms Manrubia and Mr Axelsen, areas that are dominated by widespread languages or uninhabited areas are indicated in green.
The author, who speaks one of the country's more widespread languages, Kiswahili, has helped others achieve his own goal of moving on from "knowing more about how people in Congo were dying than about how they lived".
But it is also hunting and harvesting parallel corpora from the web in less widespread languages – such as Tamil, Armenian and Basque – wherever it can find them.
A widespread lack of language skills could be damaging Scotland's ability to trade abroad, a report has suggested.
Moreover, its algorithm plug-in, Grasshopper 3D, is a widespread Visual Programming Language among parametric modeling tools [31 34], and it is complementary to the flexible property of Rhino 3D.
