also, mandarin and arabic are both imperial languages as all the european languages are derived from latin
the reason why scientists chose latin in the renaissance was because of how close it was to everything else, and not just the latin languages, the germanic and russian also
greek is in there too but it's legacy is less prevalent in modern european languages
really english is the latin of today, while spanish speakers may be more numerous overall if you count it by net worth it's english
mandarin literally means imperial, i bet arabi does too
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