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Now I have always understood this as English and previous to it, it was French....The Spanish language hasn't suddenly took over has it? If it has then I look stupid...but I'm debating with quite an intelligent woman at work and she's adament it's Spanish!
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English has 508 million speakers
Mandarin has over 1 billion speakers
Chances are English will cease to be the majority language in the USA within a generation or so :eek:
Edited to add: the above should read "breeding" of course...
How can you breathe like a rabbit
That's alright - the way Franglais is going we'll make up for lost Americans with all the French speaking English instead.
I think Mandarin is still spoken by the highest number of people in the world but I think barring a couple of other countries in SE Asia, nowhere else has it classed as an official language. As far as I am aware, Spanish is official in:
Spain (obviously), Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Haiti, Mexico, Nicaragua,Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Uruguay and Venezuela. Don't think it's classed as official in the US although a very high number of people there have it as a first language.
French is lagging behind, only France and a few off her old Colonies speak it now.
English will continue to be the universal language for a long time yet.
im not surprised it is spoken in so many countries, including South America with the exception of Brazil? correct me if im wrong.
Yes Brazillians speak Portuguese.
Mandarin is a Chinese dialect, there's also Cantonese but it's less spoken.
I'm more concerned that you seem to think that we don't
As for the thread, English is also the "international" language - much to the digust of the French, natch - and thus used for pilots etc wherever they are in the world...
The most commonly spoken language in the world is body language.
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Yes, I will call a taxi.
Already done it ..
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What about the least common languages, maybe Cornish, or Welsh?
There are many languages that Nomadic tribes in West/Northwestern China use that are distinct from Chinese, plus tribal languages used in the Amazon and places like that. Welsh is pretty popular actually. Cornish, Manx and Scottish are dying but I don't think these are spoken by the indiginous people anymore, maybe Scottish people in the countryside but they're languages people like to learn for astheitc reasons and not for everyday use.
It's not Spanish. That's for sure.
I think Spanish, Hindi, Arabic, and Mandarin will continue to grow in terms of mother tongue speakers but English will grow within the second language group. The three languages mentioned have high birth rates and have fast growing economies so they're bound to be major players in the fastest growing languages.
Talking of languages, Irish has become the lastest official language in the E.U - pointless and very costly since Brussels will have to employ interpretors.
Fuck you ya twat.
There are literally hundreds of thousands of people who speak Irish ya dick.
Bout 70,000 native speakers.
Plus this is a lot more than just translators, we have pushed for it to be recognised as an official language on cultural grounds too. As for many threatened languages it needs all the help it gets and this recognition is a boost for the language.
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