Until recently, in our foreign passports, surnames were written according to the norms of the French language. Now we have started to receive new foreign passports, where the French spelling of surnames has been changed to English. Many people are interested in what consequences this can lead to. There are language barriers that are invisible to the eyes. You will feel them when you get to some country where everyone says "not in our way". You find yourself as if isolated from the surrounding life, although there is no fence. Language barriers and borders of languages do not necessarily coincide with state borders. Often, there is a band of transitional dialects between two related languages (for example, from Belarusian to Polish). Based on the idea of a publicly accessible international language to overcome language barriers, many began to develop the basics of a special artificial language, knowledge of which would save humanity from the need to learn all other languages. So the languages ido, volapyuk, occidental and a number of others were created. The most vital of them was the Esperanto language, which today is studied not only in Europe and America, but also in Asia and Africa. There is even an Esperanto Language Academy. In the modern world, there are concepts of West and East. They are not so much geographical as historical, and are mainly related to culture. A peculiar division into "west" and "east" is also found in the use of alphabets. The West uses the Latin alphabet. East -in Cyrillic. To the east of the Cyrillic alphabet is an area that uses Arabic graphics. Southeast Asia uses mainly hieroglyphs. page 81 The Latin alphabet was used by the ancient Romans. In a slightly modified form, it serves Western Europe and America to this day. The Cyrillic alphabet is used in some countries of Eastern Europe and the former USSR. The existence of a different alphabet among the neighboring people in everyday life does not bother anyone. This may be inconvenient ... Read more