Languages have influenced the technologies, what with we standardize the applications built using English-like language. We have software / O/S es being made available in Spanish, Hindi, German, Tamil etc., to name a few. We don't have National character set for databases without any reason.
Language as an entity is a set of symbols and interplay of symbols intended for a purpose. The purpose to communicate, exchange ideas/information. A language may not perhaps remain an entity. It would/could eventually converge with other languages and form a composite set spoken by wider set or people. The basic reasons could be migration/displacement of people, trade , etc. The essence of language remains same - exchange information, understand ideas, collaborate , not to mention the efficacy of the same depends on the users using the language, it would depend upon their understanding the fine nuances of language - its attributes like grammar, structure, semantics.
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India is a Services lynchpin. The requisite is knowledge of english. It is a potential $300 billion industry for us of which we have tapped only 10%. Why? Because of linguistic divide and the political rhetoric of locals being anglicised. The Southern states cannot and will not accept Hindi to be the universal language of India and the North can't embrace the linguisitic romantics of the South. Common sense says that English is the abridger between the North and the South. A more systematic approach to accept Englis as a primary language over vernacular languages at the primary school level will uplift the job opportunities across the country.
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