A 2014 study by the investment bank Natixis even predicted that French would become the world's most widely spoken language by 2050. The authors of the study referred to were demographic growth prospects in Africa. French is also widespread in many smaller countries, Ammon said.
Classical populism. The word populism is derived from the Latin word populus, which means people in English (in the sense of folk, nation, as in: The Roman People (populus Romanus), not in the sense of multiple individual persons as in: There are people visiting us today).
So I will begin by writing not about the history of Populism, or the history of populism, but the history of the term âpopulismâ. As common nouns the words âpopulismâ and âpopulistâcame into use rather late, almost always in a polemical context, and social scienceâs appropriation of this weakly-defined term (generalized from several very dissimilar political movements) was also tendentious and polemical.