<<I think English has established itself as the language of aviation,
only aviators are going to get off Earth for some time to come, and
so the future of the Galaxy _is_ English, despite the appearance of
unimagination in Hollywood.>>
But Frank Herbert based the Fremen religion in Dune on Islam and their
language on Arabic while the Atreides clan used some old African language
(Chakobsa I think) as their battle language. And David whatsis name
Wingrove has written his monster Chung-kuo saga on the Chinese taking over
the galaxy while Paddy Kenneally (who was once Jim Morrison's girlfriend)
wrote her Keltiad series on Celts in space.
I think it all depends on when the big push outwards happens----if in the
near future it will be English but in centuries to come, who knows?
Chinese, Japanese or Arabic would be possibilities.
Declan
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