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 Jayla Balderas 

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10 September 2021 

                                                  

                         What's the language of the future?

English is the most spoken language in the world taking into account both native and non-native speakers. This article talked about how The language continues to spread everyday along with a few reasons why. A lot of people stated that speaking English is an economic opportunity or having a reason to say you simply can speak English in hopes of evaluating social status. Others have turned towards language for functionality out or reluctant choice when everyone else around them started to speak phrases in the English Language. A few people see the English in an oppressive manner for being linked to Christanity or bad power as the examples stated were imperialism and capitalism. Back in 1888 Alexander Melville Bell Believed that English was superior language and held a strong prediction that it would one day become the tongue of the world. This indicates that most other languages that were not English would slowly fade away, yes it's true that languages continue to fade away at alarming rates everyday. Though We have to ask ourselves the question if this is really the direction we hope to go in, the general idea is that English is to become the second language of most people. In a way we have already arrived at this goal. The dreamy idea a few linguists have was to shape or change English slightly for it to become more achievable in hopes that it would be used as a uniting language among cultures. Even so there is always the possibility that cultures are to become offended at the idea of being told English is the superior language or that part of these cultures will fade away. When both culture and language are what make each part of the world so unique along with different historical backgrounds. It could become a prestigious project in making people believe it's only with the ability to speak English can you receive opportunities, or that English is the normal way to frown about people who don’t speak it, silencing them and making them feel ashamed. We already see this today. This wasn’t the first time linguists believed they would see or start the tongue of the world as near the late nineteenth century and early twentieth different artificial languages started to gradually increase such as Spokil, Veltparl, and Mundolingua. As English continues to grow and spread it will naturally take on different forms. Where one phrase said in English in one place could mean one thing in another location geographically it could mean something completely else. The English Language might not fade but has a very high possibility of becoming unrecognizable. 


Hitchings, Henry. “What's the Language of the Future?” Salon, Salon.com, 5 Nov. 2011, www.salon.com/2011/11/06/whats_the_language_of_the_future/.

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