Diverisy in spoken language

http://www.manchester.ac.uk/discover/news/article/?id=10520
last accessed 15/09/15
Around 40% of Manchester’s kids and up to 50% of Manchesrer's adult population are likely to be multilingual(using mutiple languages) according to research. Also 3000 pupils at Manchester schools took their GCSE exams in foreign languages in 2012. Mancheser values diversity in spoken language as they have started a project called Multilingual Manchester which celebrates the use of mulitple language being used in our spoken language. This article is useful if you are interested in the different languages spoke in certain places.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/today/hi/today/newsid_8311000/8311069.stm
last accessed 15/09/15
Around seven thousand languages are said to be being spoken around the world. Researchers have predicted that by the year 2100, 90% of the worlds lanuage will no longer exist. "Most people are not at all interested in the death of languages,"  "If we are not cautious about the way English is progressing it may eventually kill most other languages." This article talks about how so many countries are learning, speaking and listening English over their own country's laguage, for example some Vietnamese people are listening only to English music. It also says about how the English media has blown up so much influencing people from all countires to learn and speak the English language. They also say that in years to come English or Mandarian will dominate South East Asian. This article is useful if you are interested in the fading out of languages around the world. It explains how languages are becoming extinct around the world due to more dominantly spoken languages taking over.