Editing Language contact (section)

=== Linguistic hegemony ===
A language's influence widens as its speakers grow in power. Chinese, [[Greek language|Greek]], Latin, [[Portuguese language|Portuguese]], French, [[Spanish language|Spanish]], [[Arabic language|Arabic]], [[Persian language|Persian]], [[Sanskrit language|Sanskrit]], [[Russian language|Russian]], German and English have each seen periods of widespread importance and have had varying degrees of influence on the native languages spoken in the areas over which they have held sway.

Especially during and since the 1990s, the internet, along with previous influences such as radio and television, telephone communication and printed materials,<ref name="Nazaryan_lap2006">{{cite journal |last1=Nazaryan |first1=Ani |last2=Gridchin |first2=Aleksandr |title=The influence of internet on language and "email stress" |url=http://facta.junis.ni.ac.rs/lap/lap2006/lap2006-03.pdf |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120307223041/http://facta.junis.ni.ac.rs/lap/lap2006/lap2006-03.pdf |archive-date=March 7, 2012 |access-date=December 18, 2013 |journal =Facta Universitatis |series= Law and Politics |volume=4 |issue=1 |date=2006 |pages=23–27 |publisher=University of Niš, Serbia |quote=The Internet, in conjunction with radio and television, telephone communication and printed materials, creates the universal information net, which is called "Cyberspace" [...]}}</ref> has expanded and changed the many ways in which languages can be influenced by each other and by technology.