Language change can occur for a variety of reasons including economic, political, and social factors. Furthermore, the attitudes of individuals using the language play a crucial role in why language change may occur. Individuals within a community may decide to learn another language to find work. There may be a dominant language present within a community that will benefit people when looking for jobs. An example of this would be Maniben, whose first language was Gujerati. However, to get a job he needed to speak English. He then started using English more often than Gujerati. Maniben was fluent in two languages, which means he is bilingual. Therefore, Maniben faced an economic factor whereby he changed his language (Holmes, page 53). The opposite of bilingual is monolingual. This is when people are only able to speak one language. Great Britain is an example of a predominantly monolingual country as there is only one dominant speaking language. There is also multilingual. This is when individuals within a country can speak two or more languages. This is becoming more and more popular around the world and many people are able to talk about it more than one