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| Aena Newbie United States geocities.com/mo Joined 7050 days ago 39 posts - 39 votes Studies: Mandarin, English* | Message 1 of 52 09 February 2006 at 2:45pm | IP Logged | |||||
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I read a blurb about the most influential languages at http://www2.ignatius.edu/faculty/turner/languages.htm and http://www.andaman.org/book/reprints/weber/rep-weber.htm
I thought it a little biased, but given time change it may have been approximate for the late nineties. In my opinion, the languages which were once listed near the bottom are now becoming prominent as development and globalization continues (but that won't be noticed for some time at least). As for the amount of speakers, in addition to the lists given, there is a supporting chart of how they calculated the number of speakers and number of countries each language was spoken in at http://www2.ignatius.edu/faculty/turner/worldlang.htm The estimates relatively vary, but I'm not sure how they compare to this site's list of the number of speakers for the European languages (ie. 990mil speakers for English). The number countries speaking English at the their also conflicts [115] with 104 countries listed at omniglot. Does anyone see any discrepancy here? Edited by Aena on 09 February 2006 at 2:48pm 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| paparaciii Diglot Senior Member Latvia Joined 6337 days ago 204 posts - 223 votes  Speaks: Latvian*, Russian Studies: English | Message 3 of 52 01 October 2008 at 11:53am | IP Logged | |||||
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| Samual Newbie United Kingdom Joined 5945 days ago 37 posts - 39 votes Speaks: English* | Message 4 of 52 01 October 2008 at 12:16pm | IP Logged | |||||
i disagree with the highlighted languages. any world language, in my opinion cant be one big language confined to one country. Mandarin certainly has millions of speakers but no significant population speaks it outside of china Spanish is a potential global languages but i dont think any language could compete with English 2 persons have voted this message useful | ||||||
| Alkeides Senior Member Bhutan Joined 6149 days ago 636 posts - 644 votes | Message 5 of 52 01 October 2008 at 12:18pm | IP Logged | |||||
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| Rollo the Cat Groupie United States Joined 6035 days ago 77 posts - 90 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Italian, Russian, Ancient Greek | Message 6 of 52 01 October 2008 at 12:26pm | IP Logged | |||||
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I don't think any of those languages, except maybe Spanish has any chance of really gaining much on English. I
have been hearing about Chinese for so long and here are many reasons why it will not become a dominant language outside of China itself. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Samual Newbie United Kingdom Joined 5945 days ago 37 posts - 39 votes Speaks: English* | Message 7 of 52 01 October 2008 at 12:35pm | IP Logged | |||||
I dont agree, Chinese hasn't invaded any continent? It is a major language is eastern Asia yes but other than there where is it used on a day to day basis by the majority of a population? 1 person has voted this message useful |
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