[ZaRos]

I am not sure what im talking about...
But as fare as i remember there are eight different languages spoken in china, mandarin is the lagest of these, spoken by 700-800 millions.
As for india aren't there at least tre different regional languages? Hindu is by fare the most wide spread, don't remember the number of people speaking it, but my guess is a little less than speaks mandarin.
How many people speaks english, just a guess, 500 millions. And spanish a little more.
But what makes english the "world language" is the fact that 1.5 - 2.0 billions speak english when first and second language is put together.

And now for the great question...
Why isn't danish the most spoken language in the world? There are a few "episodes" in history which could have made danish the global language.
E.g. first; the viking were the first to discover north amarica, some of you out there might think that columbus were the first, but in northern america there have been found abandoned villages whis dates back to 1000-1100, approximately 400 years before columbus.
Second; The viking conquered a large part af Britain around the year 1000. The fact that they conquered a part af britain, dosn't necessarily meen that the british should start speaking danish, if that were the case most of us should speak latin due to the wide spread antic roman empire. What is wierd in this case is the fact that the british voluntarily adopted danish. Until 1600 danish were the choosen language in the british upper-class. I have personally read autentic british law material from the late fifteen hundreds, and it was written in danish (well old danish, it was bloody hard to understand [img]smile.gif[/img] ). But for some reason the role of the danish language was taken over by french. (DOH!!! My life would be so much easier if i didn't have to learn any secondary languages.)
What i am trying to say is; danish could have been the spoken language in the two nations which to day is linguistically dominating.

One could always hope that the danes could have a second shoot at getting a global languages [img]smile.gif[/img] . But i kinda doubt that...