There are several countries in the world where the main official language is English. This happened for a number of reasons: in some lands the dialect itself was born (Great Britain), in others it was brought by settlers (USA, Canada, Australia, New Zealand). In some of them, the language penetrated along with the colonialists and remained the state language, since these powers are still under the influence of Great Britain or the United States (Bahamas, Trinidad and Tobago, Belize, Guyana, Jamaica). There are also such English-speaking countries where the local dialect has almost died out during the years of occupation and the majority of the population no longer remembers how their ancestors spoke (Ireland).
The territories of some states are inhabited by different nationalities, whose representatives simply will not understand each other without the presence of one dialect common to all. Therefore, English-speaking countries such as India and Singapore have madeBritish speech is official on a par with Hindi (in India) or Tamil, Malay and Chinese (in Singapore), but outside of the above states, the language originating from the British Isles is gaining more and more popularity. Agree, in the modern world, a more or less educated person is simply obliged to speak English.
One can wonder as much as one likes why the "universal" Esperanto has failed, and young people from different countries, dreaming of making a career, are cramming "English". Perhaps it was the skillful policy of British colonization. While France, Belgium, Holland and Germany conquered countries in Africa, but the influx of population from the monopoly there was minimal, Britain tried to populate the conquered territories with its settlers. The English-speaking countries of the American continent - the USA and Canada, as well as Australia and New Zealand, simply pushed the indigenous population to the margins - along with their dialects and dialects.
An interesting situation has developed with Ireland and M alta. These English-speaking countries of Europe have rather complex local dialects. Gaelic was gradually forced out on the "Green Island", especially after the famine, when most of its speakers - the villagers - died. Now Dublin is leading a multi-year program to revive the native language, but the official language is English.
M altese, a complex mixture of Semitic, Arabic, Occitan and Italian, has long been a spoken language, andonly at the beginning of the 19th century did literary works appear on it. The "learned" speech was until 1800 Italian (when the island was owned by the Knights of St. John), and after that date, when Britain seized power, English. In the 1920s, residents decided by referendum which dialect to keep as the second official (after M altese). The choice was not in favor of Italian, and thus M alta was accepted into the English-speaking countries of the world.
Why exactly did the dialect of a rather small island - Britain - conquer the planet? Experts believe that the scientific and technological revolution began with the United States. There, on undeveloped lands, emigrants flocked from all over the Old World. They were enterprising people, not afraid to take risks. They were creative and thought outside the box. European bureaucracy and feudal remnants did not tie the hands of new entrepreneurs as they did in Europe. And since the majority of the population came from Great Britain, the United States and Canada, which accepted a motley wave of emigrants, preserved the speech of the former historical homeland. Now these two English-speaking countries are leaders in high-tech technologies.
