does this theory has any substance? What will hasppen in the meantime, will portugese and Italian merge into Spanish/ And what will happen to the slavic group. Will all those languages become a part of English? And what will be the shape of English then? Will it be the same as today or will it borrow heavily from other languages and emerge into asort of an Esperanto?
2006-11-26 06:54:44 · 9 answers · asked by curious 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Languages
French and Spanish are not going anywhere.
2006-11-26 06:57:36 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
No one can really tell which languages will survive or how those that do survive will evolve. The reason why it's said that Mandarin, English, Spanish, Arabic, and even Hindi will be the only languages spoken in the future is because the languages are those most spoken in the world today. It's not likely that other smaller nations will give up their tongues and adopt another one just for conveniece. Is one language necessarily better than the other?
Our world is large and covered my a plethora of nations. Even if one langauge is instituted as an international language, chance are the native langauge of a region will continue to live on, even if it is through a pidgen langauge. This will result in many dialects of the same langauge.
2006-11-26 08:20:18 · answer #2 · answered by Sungchul 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Who can really know how language will evolve? I would suspect that Spanish would be one of the existing languages in the future world as most people in the world either speak Spanish or Chinese...in spite of all its popularity, less than a fourth of the worlds population speak English. A third of the world speak Mandrin Chinese though.
However, language is evolving as quickly as life styles and as people associate with one another more and more through world travel and trade, their languages intertwine. Many words in English were borrowed from other languages. As time goes on, there will be more words that were never English before but are becoming adopted into the changing language.
I think that languages of the future will be carved by the politics of the coming days and will probably not be called by the same name they are today.
By the way, you left out Greek...the Greek language is one of the oldest languages in the world that is still being used in daily life. Also Sanskrit...although people don't speak that in daily life anymore...Sanskrit and Latin are pretty much dead except for scholarly work but Hindi is a spin off of it just as Spanish is a spin off of Latin. To know how the future may unfold, look to the past.
Languages will die and languages will be invented and current languages will change. I don't think there will ever be only 4 languages in the world though as long as there are 10 people left on the earth, there will be 10 different languages!
2006-11-26 07:06:29 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
np the only language that can survive is Greek...Like most Indo-European languages, Greek is highly inflected. Greek grammar has come down through the ages fairly intact, though with some simplifications. For example Modern Greek features two numbers: singular and plural. The useless but sublime dual of Ancient times was abandoned at a very early stage. The instrumental case of Mycenaean Greek disappeared in the Archaic period, and the dative-locative of Ancient Greek disappeared in the late Hellenistic. The remaining cases (nominative, accusative, genitive and vocative) remain intact. The three ancient gender noun categories (masculine, feminine and neuter) never fell out of use, while adjectives agree in gender number and case with their respective nouns, as do their articles. Greek verbs are inflected for:
mood - indicative, subjunctive, imperative - but the ancient optative was lost.
aspect - perfective, stative, imperfective
voice - active, mediopassive (reflexive, middle and passive)
tense - present, past, future
person - first, second, third, singular and plural (and originally dual). see more here...http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greek_language#Characteristics
2006-11-26 07:03:25 · answer #4 · answered by Angie 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
the languages will probably be all mixed and jumbled so you can barely undertand them. (try to read english from 1500 - and that was before all the differenct cultures started communicated with eachother)
2006-11-26 07:00:38 · answer #5 · answered by zzzzz 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
you want to be managable in both languages. this is because ninety p.c. of people in Rural India (or perhaps on the city India in states like UP, Bihar and so on) dont understand English, subsequently Hindi is needed. on the different hand, maximum folk in Tamil Nadu, West Bengal, and North-East dont understand Hindi correct, subsequently, we favor to have some English. yet when you reside for a lengthy time period in some position, then some community language is needed, considering, you discover some those who dont understand both English or Hindi. i'm staying in Bangalore for your time, and subsequently, ought to talk in Kannada to the above said people (even although that damaged). contained in the nutshell, 3 languages are required. English, Hindi and local Language.
2016-11-26 23:23:57 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
*gasp* qu'est-ce qui a arrivee a francais? je marque quelques accents. desolee.
2006-11-26 06:57:57 · answer #7 · answered by Shmily P 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Of course not! What an outrageous suggestion...!!
Everybody knows that in 500 years time there will only be ONE language spoken on Earth - Martian! Don't believe me????? You will when they invade...!!!
; )
2006-11-26 11:03:34 · answer #8 · answered by _ 6 · 0⤊ 4⤋
Quite possible.
I know three of them, yay
2006-11-28 04:18:51 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋