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What is the future of the Chinese language?

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Chinese is a language family where the written form is mutually intelligible between its members but spoken form is not. read more

There are 400 million Chinese studying English and China has more English learners than the U.S. has English speakers. Ok, that should settle it, the global language de facto will never be Chinese. read more

The Chinese dialects combined already have more native speakers than any other language, followed by Hindi and Urdu, which have the same linguistic origins in northern India. English comes next with 527 million native speakers. Arabic is spoken by nearly 100 million more native speakers than Spanish, which has 389 million speakers. read more

The other mooted language of the future, Mandarin, despite being excruciatingly hard to learn for most Westerners, will probably not be that given China's certain demographic slide. Meanwhile, French will be present on all continents, and particularly predominant in a continent that, by 2050, should be a fast-growing economic powerhouse--Africa. read more

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