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Top 10 Languages - Rankings in 2050 | ||
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| Matheus Senior Member Brazil Joined 5085 days ago 208 posts - 312 votes  Speaks: Portuguese* Studies: English, French | Message 97 of 108 08 March 2011 at 3:12pm | IP Logged | ||
Plus, Portuguese is closer to Spanish (like 75-80%). If you know Spanish you can get around in Brazil. Some Spanish speakers live in Brazil for years without learning Portuguese. 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| Darklight1216 Diglot Senior Member United StatesRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5104 days ago 411 posts - 639 votes Speaks: English*, French Studies: German | Message 98 of 108 08 March 2011 at 8:18pm | IP Logged | ||
Then why bother with Portuguese? No, that's not a serious question, but I suspect that things may continue as they are with Spanish being the more dominant of the two because after all you can get way with it. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| lichtrausch Triglot Senior Member United States Joined 5964 days ago 525 posts - 1072 votes Speaks: English*, German, Japanese Studies: Korean, Mandarin | Message 99 of 108 09 March 2011 at 2:30am | IP Logged | ||
This might just be the holy grail of language rankings that I have been searching for all these years. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Mozart D. L. Newbie Brazil Joined 5175 days ago 3 posts - 3 votes Speaks: Portuguese* Studies: English, Italian | Message 100 of 108 09 March 2011 at 3:52am | IP Logged | ||
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Hi!
I really enjoyed this thread! Very great! I only want to advise you to give attention to the this event: if people get culture, they can get interest for other things. I want to say that many people will feel desire for learning some languages. As example, I know some guys who like and are learn languages to acquire cultural knowlegde, like French and Japanese. This could be a good point to consider. Mozart D. L. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
 Iversen Super Polyglot Moderator Denmark berejst.dk Joined 6707 days ago 9078 posts - 16473 votes Speaks: Danish*, French, English, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Dutch, Swedish, Esperanto, Romanian, Catalan Studies: Afrikaans, Greek, Norwegian, Russian, Serbian, Icelandic, Latin, Irish, Lowland Scots, Indonesian, Polish, Croatian Personal Language Map | Message 101 of 108 17 May 2011 at 1:45pm | IP Logged | ||
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See another (short) thread about the theme here
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| Mad Max Tetraglot Groupie Spain Joined 5055 days ago 79 posts - 146 votes Speaks: Spanish*, French, English, Russian Studies: Arabic (classical) | Message 102 of 108 30 May 2011 at 7:41pm | IP Logged | ||
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I think that English, Spanish and Chinese will be on the top. I read an report from Bank of Santander and other reports. These 3 languages will have more or less the same importance in 2020-2030, but the most spoken of them will be Spanish by 2045-2050.
Another group will be Arabic, Hindi-Urdu and Portuguese. Interesting and important languages in the future. Finally, Russian, French, German and Japanese will finish the list. The last four will be less spoken due to demographic factors. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Fiveonefive Diglot Groupie Japan Joined 5697 days ago 69 posts - 88 votes Speaks: English*, Japanese Studies: Swedish | Message 103 of 108 01 June 2011 at 4:36am | IP Logged | ||
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I think Japanese will remain on the list because it is such a highly developed country whose people really suck at learning English.
Same situation with Korean but add the ongoing importance of the Korean conflict. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| larryfeltonj Newbie United States otbeatenpath.blogspo Joined 4928 days ago 1 posts - 1 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish | Message 104 of 108 02 June 2011 at 4:41pm | IP Logged | ||
Wow! This is a long running thread! I have a goal of learning all six official languages of the UN before I die, and I think those six (English, Han Chinese, Spanish, French, Arabic, and Russian) will continue to be ranked highly by 2050. If current political and economic trends continue German, Farsi, Hindi, Portuguese, Japanese, and Korean would all be good to know. The truth is, though, we can only base any such guess on population trends and current politics. For all I know Malay, Hausa, or Finnish might be very important languages by 2050 for unforeseen political or economic reasons. 1 person has voted this message useful |
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