Re: Natlangs as auxlangs

Quoting Stone Gordonssen <stonegordonssen@...>:

> >I'm a bit surprised that Japanese turns up on the list of
> "supercentral"
> >languages - where is it used as a "common" language for internation
> >communication?
>
> Perhaps from when Japan became a economic superpower in the 90s?
The '90s would be when Japan's economy went haywire, wouldn't it? Still, it
remains an economical great power, but the question was _where_ is functions
as a language of international contacts, on a major level.

                                                           Andreas