Most influential languages in 2056

[Gr3yL3gion]

Queen's English.

 

[Truronian]

Queen's English.

Indubitably.

 

[skadistic]

English. There are more people learning english in China and India then speak it fluently in America.

 

[GoldEagle]

English, Chinese, Japanese, Arabic, Spanish, and Russian, possibly in that order.

 

[Homie]

esperanto

This must be a joke. Least influential language ever.

Btw, Chinese/Mandarin is not an influential language at all, it is not spoken outside of China, and people don't learn it as a secondary in school.

The languages will be English, German, Spanish, French and maybe Arab.

 

[GoldEagle]

Why German? It seems to me like most everyone in Germany also speaks English.

 

[Homie]

German is not high on the list, it barely made it, I should have added "not necessarily in that order" to my list.

But German still made it because it is a language that people learn as a 2nd language in school, even though it isn't really spoken outside of Germany and a few other European countries close to it.

 

[Desmond Hawkins]

In order:

English, Chinese, Spanish, Hindi, Portugese.

 

[truckingpete]

Japanese is just a fun language.

Domo arigato, Mr. Roboto,
Mata ah-oo hima de
Domo arigato, Mr. Roboto,
Himitsu wo shiri tai

Sorry just had too

Anyway, English, German, Japanese, and hmm...Chinese...who knows, I will be 66, ill tell you in 50 years

 

[Eran of Arcadia]

English, of course. Spanish and Portuguese will become more important. I see maybe Mandarin and Hindi becoming big too, assuming those countries don't just use English for international business.

 

[Fox Mccloud]

I can't believe people are saying German, French, Japanese, and even Esperanto but forgetting Arabic??? How can you say Esperanto and not Arabic?

Anyway, my bet is on English, Chinese, Spanish, Hindi, Arabic, and Russian probably in that order.

 

[Elrohir]

Mandarin and English will undoubtedly be widespread. Spanish, Japanese, Portugese, and Arabic would probably be the others.

 

[Fox Mccloud]

Domo arigato, Mr. Roboto,
Mata ah-oo hima de
Domo arigato, Mr. Roboto,
Himitsu wo shiri tai

Sorry just had too

Can't you right in in Japanese letters? What your doing is like putting English in Cyrillic.

 

[Eran of Arcadia]

I want to see Arabic become important, just because I speak a little and therefore this skill would be in high demand. It is the same reason I want to see Spanish become influential - pure selfishness.

 

[Fox Mccloud]

Well, Arabic and Spanish are a lot more likely then German, Japanese, and no doubt Esperanto.

Both of those languages are spoken by millions of people in many nations, so they probably have the best chance.

 

[Godwynn]

Spanish, Hindi, Chinese, English

In no order

 

[soul_warrior]

english for the west (mostly europe)
japanese and chinese (for the east)
russian will gain a foothold aswell as german
spanish will rise a bit, but not asmuch as those earlier ones.

 

[pboily]

If South America wakes up, I could see
Spanish and Portuguese, as well as English, Hindu, Afrikaans/Swahili, Mandarin

 

[TheDervish]

English, Chinese, Hindi, Spanish (Latin American usage), and Arabic.

I doubt that German, French, or any other continental European language (aside from Spanish, but I do believe Latin American usage will be dominant) will make it to the top 5.

 

[Cuivienen]

Mandarin, Hindi, English and Spanish. Should be fairly obvious why.

It's also notable that these are already the four largest languages in the world anyway.