Do you think all people on earth will speak chinese in the future ?

Answer 1

Mandarin Chinese will be the most widely spoken language.

Answer 2

There are more people in India who speak English than there are in the United States. From a purely subjective standpoint, I don't think that English and Chinese have enough similarity for one of them to absorb, or even borrow much, from the other. They're not even in the same family. English is Indo-European, Chinese is Sino-Tibetan. (See the confusion and humor that results when you mix the two by looking up "Chinglish" on Wikipedia.) Maybe in 500 years, we'll all wear universal language translators on our wrists to accomodate each person's home tongue. There is probably a threshold point at which point there are enough people speaking a language that it is unlikely to ever die out. What I see happening in hundreds of years, and this is just my guess, is that one or two languages in each branch of a language family will subsume the other nearby languages on that branch, so, for example, English and Spanish will absorb German, French, and Portuguese. The lesser spoken ones won't die; they'll just evolve to be more English-like. My guess is that Chinese will continue going strong, but only in countries with native born speakers. This could all change if someone designs a new Internet that is language neutral, rather than geared towards English speaking people. Which leads me to a question: What does a computer keyboard look like in China?

Answer 3

Throughout the world there are many many times more people learning to speak English than there are Chinese.
Chinese is spoken by more people, simply because of the population of China. Almost all of it is spoken in one concentrated spot. English is spoken in many countries scattered all over the world.
France, Germany and many other European countries have government bureaus of language, mostly to purge the language of English words. Without that English would take over.
Don't worry about Chinese yet. They have a long way to go to catch up to the West. They're concentrating on manufacturing at the expense of everything else.

Answer 4

I highly doubt it, as not everyone speaks English now, so why would everyone start speaking Chinese? Especially when English is considered the international language and the language of business.

Oh BTW what do you mean by Chinese? There is no one Chinese language, but three main ones: Mandarin, Cantonese & and various other ones.

Answer 5

What a question. Ever read "The Ambler Warning" by Robert Ludlum? Just did.
Anyway, no, Mandarin is not only complicated to speak as far as dialects, etc., it is just not viable as a written form, and for computers at that!
My son is half Cantonese, and so I feel guilty saying it, but I hope to god that they never truly take over the world. So many rich, with so many dying of out-and-out starvation.
What, do they wish to emulate US or something?

Answer 6

In my opinion, no, but if you really think about it- you may want to brush up on that English, and maybe learn another language besides Chinese

Answer 7

no because its too late, china isnt branching off enough, not enough trade and resources, everyone will speak english in the future, in like 90+ years, or at least english with an accent

Answer 8

No, there are several versions of the chinese language.

Answer 9

If it wasn't so complicated, but I think that English is now the language that will be spoken in all the word.

Answer 10

No not really. Is not like China is going to take over the whole world! lol