What if the entire world spoke one language? What would that language be? In John McWhorters writing the Cosmopolitan Tongue he talks about how languages are dying and it’s not necessarily a bad thing. He claims that by 2109 ninety percent of the world’s languages will be dead. That would take us from the current 6000 languages down 600 languages for all of the world. Do you think that is a bad thing? Mcwhorter doesn’t, he feels that it is a natural progression caused by people of smaller communities moving to bigger cities and taking on the language of that city. I disagree with McWhorter about it being a natural progression brought on by people leaving their communities. If that is what killed languages it would mean everyone would
