In the future will English be substituted by another language as the universal language?

Answer 1

yes.

Esperanto is the future! ;)

Answer 2

Nobody can, of course, predict the furure accurately.

However, most likely I think English will be the last universal language in the world for a long time to come. In a few centuries, English will break up into several different languages much the same way the Romance languages did from Latin about 1500 years ago.

The daughter languages of English will hold sway in certain parts of the world like Australia & New Zealand, North America and the British Isles.

Elsewere in the world, we will see regional languages emerging or reasserting themselves and dominating certain geographic areas: French or German in continental Europe, Russian between the Baltic and Vladivostok, Chinese in eastern Asia, Hindi and Indonesian in southern Asia, Yoruba in Nigeria, Portuguese in Latin America, and maybe in much of Atlantic and southern Africa etc.

Still, the tendency will be for the number of languages in the world to continue to disappear. There may be fewer than thirty in another 500 years.

Answer 3

That last Universal language was French before WWI. It only took 50 years to reduce French language dominance.

2 world wars and a declining France. So yes English will probally be usurped. Can you imagine what ebonics is doing to our language, what if whole countries speak in Ebonics.

Answer 4

English may be usurped as the world's language, but it will be done at gunpoint. The truth is, English, of ALL languages, lends itself best to commerce, science and literature.

German has words that are too long, Russian requires the Cyrillic alphabet, French is too sissified, all eastern languages too vague and open to interpretation.

English is staying. Be grateful you don't have to learn it as an adult.

Answer 5

The dye has been cast. Like it or not English is the Global language from now on . REMEMBER when you fly all pilots and air traffic control speak English.So for your safety and mine let English remain .

Answer 6

if what you mean by this is that english will change as the world known language !! then yes it has already started to change!! the bets are that as asia increases its eceonomic power and the united states loses its then either hindi or shinese or japanese could become very important languages

Answer 7

who says english is the universal language?
it isn't the most spoken, mandarin chinese is.

Answer 8

Will remain - but degenerate- too many people speak it worse and worse including natives