Although the possible animal origin of human languages is still very controversial, many field studies have been able to prove that each species of monkeys has evolved a language. In particular, studies have shown that male monkeys produce different warning sounds to alert the group of an incoming danger.

A recent article in Quartz cites research by Facebook, that English language websites accounted for 56% of the global total, and a basket of merely 10 languages account for 89% of the sites in the world. This leads to a phenomenon of “linguistic exclusion” that shuts out many of those who speak any of the more than 7,000 other living languages in the world.