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...Spanish were the main organisers of the trade, but by the second half of the seventeenth century the countries of north-west Europe were becoming involved. During the eighteenth century, Britain was the foremost slave-trading power, alongside the French, the Dutch, the Portuguese, and the Spanish, all of whom had colonies in the New World. A "triangular trade" operated,...

...Spanish, French and Italian evolved from Latin. In other words, World English might have been no more than a celebration of diversity, like World Music, rather than the global lingua franca which it has also become. The Linguistic Nature of Global English Describing Global English as a lingua franca - a means of communication between speakers of different mother tongues -...