No Spanish? And I don't understand why you put Japanese on there.
Its hard to say what a world language would be, though I know it probably wouldn't be anything like the languages that we speak now, languages are always changing, for instance, English almost prides itself on the ability to make nouns into verbs (ala Mr. Shakespeare) and languages themselves are always incorporating words of different languages into their own lexicon.
There can also be a great divide when it comes to learning other languages, for instance, those of us that speak English or other Germanic languages (German, Scandinavian languages) can easily learn other Germanic languages and even some of the Romantic languages like Spanish, French or Italian. They both share a lot of similarities and history over the centuries.
Though, a Germanic-First Language speaker would have a much harder time learning something like Mandarin or Cantonese, or even the Slavic languages with their Cyrillic and Kanji alphabets, respectively- not to mention the Arab, Persian, African and Indian languages (there are 7 alone spoken in India) Likewise, though, it would be hard for those Asian-First Language, or other language speakers to learn more Germanic or Romantic languages.
We see more countries having English being taught to their students and employees even, for the sake of the way economics go these days, but we are not seeing the same in the Western world to learn Mandarin, Cantonese, Korean or even Spanish or German, despite all the trade and business done with those allies. Personally, I think that this lack of bilingualism in the Western world is a problem, as we see that learning more than one language is in many ways better for the brain and make other tasks and other problems easier to work out if the brain can already compute in and understand other languages, and because of this- I don't think that English will last the same way that it is today in the coming centuries. If anything, I would think that English would either be slowly replaced or become intertwined with another language where bilingualism was just the norm.
I'm sure the Romans thought that Latin would become the language that everyone would speak due to their influence. They were correct and false in that prediction, though. No one really speaks Latin the same way as it existed during the Imperial Roman times, but just look at the influence that Latin had on just about every language that is spoken in the Western world, from Spanish, Italian, French, English, German, Portuguese. Even the forms of French and Belgian dialects and variations spoken in parts of Africa from the colonization that are becoming their own languages- to something like the Portuguese spoken in Brazil that has become a language of its own, really.
There's a bright future ahead, I think, where language barriers will slowly degrade, but they only degrade to reinforce an entirely different kind of language. I think a trip to the future would begin slowly while at first just trying to understand the things you've missed out on while your language has become much more advanced and interconnected.
Its hard to say what a world language would be, though I know it probably wouldn't be anything like the languages that we speak now, languages are always changing, for instance, English almost prides itself on the ability to make nouns into verbs (ala Mr. Shakespeare) and languages themselves are always incorporating words of different languages into their own lexicon.
There can also be a great divide when it comes to learning other languages, for instance, those of us that speak English or other Germanic languages (German, Scandinavian languages) can easily learn other Germanic languages and even some of the Romantic languages like Spanish, French or Italian. They both share a lot of similarities and history over the centuries.
Though, a Germanic-First Language speaker would have a much harder time learning something like Mandarin or Cantonese, or even the Slavic languages with their Cyrillic and Kanji alphabets, respectively- not to mention the Arab, Persian, African and Indian languages (there are 7 alone spoken in India) Likewise, though, it would be hard for those Asian-First Language, or other language speakers to learn more Germanic or Romantic languages.
We see more countries having English being taught to their students and employees even, for the sake of the way economics go these days, but we are not seeing the same in the Western world to learn Mandarin, Cantonese, Korean or even Spanish or German, despite all the trade and business done with those allies. Personally, I think that this lack of bilingualism in the Western world is a problem, as we see that learning more than one language is in many ways better for the brain and make other tasks and other problems easier to work out if the brain can already compute in and understand other languages, and because of this- I don't think that English will last the same way that it is today in the coming centuries. If anything, I would think that English would either be slowly replaced or become intertwined with another language where bilingualism was just the norm.
I'm sure the Romans thought that Latin would become the language that everyone would speak due to their influence. They were correct and false in that prediction, though. No one really speaks Latin the same way as it existed during the Imperial Roman times, but just look at the influence that Latin had on just about every language that is spoken in the Western world, from Spanish, Italian, French, English, German, Portuguese. Even the forms of French and Belgian dialects and variations spoken in parts of Africa from the colonization that are becoming their own languages- to something like the Portuguese spoken in Brazil that has become a language of its own, really.
There's a bright future ahead, I think, where language barriers will slowly degrade, but they only degrade to reinforce an entirely different kind of language. I think a trip to the future would begin slowly while at first just trying to understand the things you've missed out on while your language has become much more advanced and interconnected.
