English Language

With about one and a half billion non-native speakers, English has become the world's own language. Such [blank] has its downside, of course. There are now about 6,800 languages left in the world, compared with perhaps twice that number back at the dawn of agriculture. Thanks in [blank] to the rise of über-languages, most importantly English, the remaining languages are now dying at the [blank] of about one a fortnight. Want to learn Busuu, anyone? Then you'd better head to Cameroon fast before one of the language's last eight speakers [blank] the bucket (as the Busuu-nese presumably doesn't say).