could someone tell me which languages will be used wordwide in years to come?

Question

I watched a documentary and it said that eventually it would be mandarin chinese and english, but my hubby does not beleive me! does anybody else know

Answer 1

Mandarin Chinese is the most widely spoken language since China is the current most populated country.
English is a "common" language meaning that it is the language that is spoken when it comes toward international affairs/ economics, etc.

Answer 2

English

Mandarin Chinese will not become an worldwide language. It is full of homophones and thus requires numerous word pairs to overcome the homophones.

Chinese writing is archaic and is based off an existing character set that is not easily expandable. This does not lend well to new terms and acronyms. Creation of new words and terms is limited from the pool of existing words and characters.

It's innovation is limited and cannot readily keep up. Compare that to Japanese Katakana, a system that is readily used for foreign and newly concocted words/terms.

The need to memorize thousands of unique characters greatly hampers the ability to learn the language quickly unless they start from a young age.

I think the barriers that surround Chinese will inhibit from being a true international language.

Don't get me wrong. I am Chinese and I love Chinese... I study it day in a day out, though I must admit, I despise Mandarin Chinese. it is also a forced language in China. 500 million of the 1.3 billion people in China are not native Mandarin Chinese speakers. They speak other Chinese dialects, but the government has forced all education in the country to be conducted in Mandarin. No ifs buts. So much for the rich history of the other dialects.

Chinese will continue to be the most widely spoken language, but will not become a true international language.

Answer 3

Can't imagine anyone outside of China going for Mandarin Chinese. English, or the version of it Americans speak, is the most widely spoken if not as a first language. If we were going to all end up speaking one language I reckon that would be it.

Answer 4

English is already used worldwide, so that's a no-brainer. Mandarin Chinese is definitely going to be the language that will rival the popularity of English.

Answer 5

Worldwide in years to come ? Computer language is going to be the only language accessible by anyone. The way I see it, it will be a specialised jargon, not really a language, but it will be for international communications. Basic American-English, latin and greek. A branch of Russian, Hindi and Chinese-Japanese, take your pick. Smile. I am French.

Answer 6

My friend is studying Italian at uni and her professor told her that italian will be obsolete in 1000 years time. The French have banned any more english words going into the french dictionary as there were dozens of english words going in every year.

If you go on holiday and watch spanish or italian news every other sentence has an english word in it such as weekend, beautiful, feeling, stress, derby(as in football match)

Just look at the eurovision song contest 99% of all countries taking part sing in ENGLISH!!!

yup bruce lee vs jade goody next millenia.

Answer 7

I have the same idea - but you really need to define this "years to come". Till now, over 80% of the Internet content is in English though. Of course the trend is like this - Chinese people are spreaded over worldwide and Chinese is spreaded at the same speed as that of its economy blooming.

Answer 8

Common logic says you are correct.People will for a long time use their own language for everyday but everyone will speak English as the international language of commerce and negotiation.Eventually these languages will die out as English is used more and more.

Answer 9

English for sure -- it is already the language of internation business, science, and aviation. Chinese is likely simply because so many people speak it.

Answer 10

I would say...Mandarin Chinese, Hindu, English, or maybe even Spanish.