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| Mad Max Tetraglot Groupie Spain Joined 5054 days ago 79 posts - 146 votes  Speaks: Spanish*, French, English, Russian Studies: Arabic (classical) | Message 1 of 115 30 December 2014 at 6:54pm | IP Logged |
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I was reading several articles about the importance of major languages in the future.
French will be the most spoken language in 2050 according to a recent study by French investment bank Natixis. http://www.france24.com/en/20140326-will-french-be-world-mos t-spoken-language-2050/ At the same time, Spanish will be the most spoken language in the world by 2045 according to Humberto López Morales, secretary of the Association of Spanish Language Academies. Humberto López Morales: Spanish will be the most spoken language in the world by 2045. http://www.pagef30.com/2010/08/humberto-lopez-morales-spanis h-will-be.html Finally, while Mandarin is expected to remain the most widely-spoken language in 2050 according to several studies, Hindi-Urdu and English are predicted to be in the top 5 too. So, English, Chinese, Spanish,French, and perhaps Hindi, can be the most spoken language in the future. Which language will have the greatest number of speakers by 2050? 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| rdearman Senior Member United Kingdom rdearman.orgRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5239 days ago 881 posts - 1812 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Italian, French, Mandarin | Message 2 of 115 30 December 2014 at 7:43pm | IP Logged |
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Dolphin, since I figure Humans will be extinct.
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| Radioclare Triglot Senior Member United Kingdom timeofftakeoff.com Joined 4586 days ago 689 posts - 1119 votes Speaks: English*, German, Esperanto Studies: Croatian, Serbian, Macedonian | Message 3 of 115 30 December 2014 at 8:32pm | IP Logged |
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Esperanto. Definitely.
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| luke Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 7208 days ago 3133 posts - 4351 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: Esperanto, French | Message 4 of 115 31 December 2014 at 12:05am | IP Logged |
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Binary, because computers will "make it so".
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| shk00design Triglot Senior Member Canada Joined 4447 days ago 747 posts - 1123 votes Speaks: Cantonese*, English, Mandarin Studies: French | Message 5 of 115 31 December 2014 at 1:27am | IP Logged |
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There is not a single language that would dominate in every part of the world. We are still going to have regional
languages such as Spanish for much of Central & South America with Portuguese in Brazil. Chinese would be dominant in E. Asia including places like Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand & Singapore where the people are learning Chinese as a second language. In India, English is still very much a business language along with Hindi. In Africa, you have a split between the east & south that uses mainly English as the second language and the west that uses mainly French. In the Middle-East and parts of N. Africa, Arabic would still be common. People are proud of their national heritage and even with a small population would fight to the last nail to preserve their identity. This is the case in Hong Kong where the Chinese majority speak Cantonese and would fight to prevent Mandarin spoken on the Mainland from taking over. Adopting a second language such as English in Scandinavian countries is always preferred because of the number of places already using English. We would see several languages dominate such as Chinese, English, Spanish, Portuguese & French. Some languages such as Hindi & Russian although have a large # speakers tend to be restricted to specific geographic locations. Edited by shk00design on 31 December 2014 at 1:38am 4 persons have voted this message useful | |
| Darklight1216 Diglot Senior Member United StatesRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5103 days ago 411 posts - 639 votes Speaks: English*, French Studies: German | Message 6 of 115 31 December 2014 at 2:01am | IP Logged |
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I would have to guess English, but mainly from ESL speakers. Edited by Darklight1216 on 31 December 2014 at 2:01am 2 persons have voted this message useful | |
| rdearman Senior Member United Kingdom rdearman.orgRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5239 days ago 881 posts - 1812 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Italian, French, Mandarin | Message 7 of 115 31 December 2014 at 12:32pm | IP Logged |
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TO be honest not much will change language wise in only 35 years. You'd need a lot of time for things to shift dramatically.
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| Jeffers Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 4912 days ago 2151 posts - 3960 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Hindi, Ancient Greek, French, Sanskrit, German | Message 8 of 115 31 December 2014 at 7:28pm | IP Logged |
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Sindarin. Once somebody makes some decent films based on Tolkien's books.
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