Latin used to be the universal language of Europe for science and all that. Old English was very popular in the 5th-12th century. There are thousands of other old languages. My question is why did they switch from old languages to new ones? What's the point?
Why has the world changed official languages so many times?
First, THE WORLD hasn't had ever an %26quot;official%26quot; language. And I don't see such a thing could happen in the future.
Latin was NOT a universal language. It was the language in which all scholars used to write. But after a little while, nobody used to speak like that in their daily lives.
Old English was popular only in England.
lol Your %26quot;facts%26quot; are a little off :p
Now, why do we switch from one lingua franca to another? Because the %26quot;owners%26quot; of them fall in disgrace and the owners of another one appear to be stronger (either politically, militarly or economically) and their business and relations are now held in that language.
