A Snapshot of Research Papers in Non-English Languages

Abstract

Globally, the use of English language has been continuously increasing and English is reported to be the most widely learned second language. In scholarly communication too, English has become the preferred language although it is well known that many scientific terminologies and words are derived from Latin and Greek. It has been reported that 'science reached the end of its Latin when in 2012 International Code of Botanical Nomenclature declared as no longer obligatory that the Linnaean binomial classification, but also the description of candidates for new species, be in Latin'.