The video shows the history and projection of the total number of speakers of the top 15 languages from 1900 to 2100. If a person who speaks both English and French is counted in both of these categories; Source: Ethnologue
@@Theestallionfan400 Depends on how intense globalisation will be. Most influencing means are internet, teaching english in the schools and tourism also. I'm just mortal, can't predict what will happen. That was just my guess. I admit that it is perhaps less likely than more likely. EDIT: Many more people living in India may become English speakers in the near future.
Even if thats the case, it is still super inaccurate... Portuguese is like the 5th or 6th most spoken language in the world. Just on native speakers the chart is off by 40-60 million people.
@@rsr4423 Specifically, French surpassing Spanish in the future, when French is dying out in places like Quebec and Africa, as French has already died out in Vietnam. Meanwhile Spanish keeps getting stronger and stronger on the American Continents, the American Continents that are majority Spanish-speaking already, Spanish is still getting stronger.
@@RidleyScottOwnsFailedDictatorsbut many countries in Latin America are going to see their populations begin to peak and plateau before beginning to fall (Mexico, Colombia, Cuba, Argentina). Meanwhile, the population of French speaking Africa has some of the highest birth rates in the world and is growing very rapidly (Niger, DRC, Chad).
Possibly. It might also imply India and China are due for a population decline by 2100 or that not all Indians and Chinese would learn Hindi and Mandarin. India has 22 major languages and China has over 200. It be nice to know what factor was considered when calculating 🧐
I sincerely doubt that in 1902 everyone in China spoke Mandarin since "Mandarin" was just the language spoken by the people of Beijing (and not spoken by all of China) at that time.
I am from the Middle East and this world is strange. They started learning Arabic in the fifties and sixties for the sake of money. Salaries in Middle Eastern countries at that time and until now are the highest in the world. At that time, salaries in Kuwait alone were five times the salaries in America, and they did not care about them before that for the sake of culture and history.
The chart does show French eventually surpassing Spanish, which surprised me. Maybe it's because French-speaking countries in Africa are growing so rapidly? I don't know.
@@sue9553 But most of Africa does not even speak French. If anything, French is dying out in Africa, even some former French African colonies turned countries like Mali got rid of French as an official language because French was spoken by so few. Meanwhile Spanish, which is already pervasive in the Americas, keeps growing in the Americas, in the US, Canada, Brazil, and even in Belize. There seems to be an anti-Hispanic bias to whatever study that these future projections are based on. Spanish will not be less than French, ever, unless something catastrophic or drastic occurs that this study knows about.
@@RidleyScottOwnsFailedDictatorsThe prediction that French would overtake Spanish definitely struck me as odd. I doubt I'll live far enough into the future to find out for sure though lol.
@Quarthnes no way, this 274 millions just in North Africa. Egypt is 120 millions, Algeria is 40 millions and so is Morrocco and Sudan is 35 millions...how about Iraq syria Lebanon Jordan Saudi arabia. ....etc
@@ibrahimshehata7185 So true, I did not pay attention I was mostly replying to those which questioned where did the data after 2024 came from. Yep you are right, Arabs are almost 491 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Arab_League_countries_by_population
قد أتفق أن الإنجليزية الأولى عالميا من حيث متحدثيها، لكن كيف يعقل أن تكون لغة الماندرين تحتل الرتبة الثانية عالميا لكن لم أجد لها إلا بضع فيديوهات قليلة في اليوتيوب، مذهل!
