The Portuguese language spread extensively, and the upper classes quickly gained proficiency in it.
In addition to being used in Phoenicia, the language spread to many of its colonies.
But here we see a rare case of the opposite problem: the Arabic language, spread over more than 20 countries, has too many armies and navies.Addendum: Even more than usual, I encourage readers to scan the comments below.
Observed from the colonial and new-colonial history of English language spread and English language education promotion, English has a potential and inevitable problem of being a "Trojan horse".
Turkic culture and language spread into Central Asia, as did artistic and political influences from the Tang Dynasty.
Temple schools and traditional gurukulam classes in verandahs (known as Thinnai Pallikoodam in Tamil language) spread basic education in languages such as Tamil language and Sanskrit and religion to the upper classes.
As a language spreads over a larger area (e.g., as a result of colonization) and is being learned by a greater number of adult learners, complex morphological paradigms have a greater probability, over historical time, to become simplified [28], [26], [12].
Their Quechuan languages spread beyond their original homeland in the southern Peruvian highlands and resulted in the extinction or reduction of many other Indian tongues.
Languages spread along lines of communication: they followed trade as specialists offered their finest pots or their best axes for sale to their neighbours.
But just as importantly, the thematic groupings remind us of something else: that in Africa, with almost 1 billion people speaking more than 1,000 languages spread across 57 countries, culture and art differ from place to place.
