In the article, “What the World Will Speak in 2115”, by John H. McWhorter, talks about how English will remain the Lingua Franca of the world and how many of the world’s most difficult languages will soon diminish or become less complex. Throughout the article, McWhorter argues a wide variety of different topics on how the English language will one day dominate the entire world. McWhorter explains many complex languages won’t be able to surpass English as the main language because of the level of difficulty that many other world languages require of a user. For example, McWhorter explains how Mandarin won’t become the world’s dominant language, despite its rapid population and economic growth, because of how difficult it is to learn for those not born in Mandarin speaking countries. Also, older people take a longer time to learn languages so transitioning from
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In many countries, native speakers from different cultures have been punished or exterminated for not using the dominant language of that country. McWhorter talks about Native Americans and the Aboriginal people of Australia, who are prime examples of how colonization forced these cultures to lose their native tongue and adapt to the invading conquers. Also, minority languages disappear if they are only being spoken rather than being written, such is the case for the Navajo and the Australian Aboriginals.
Difficult and unwritten languages will disappear because of the value placed on dominant languages. For many native speaking people, larger languages are associated with more success and more opportunities than smaller languages, which leads many parents from small cultures to stop teaching their original languages to future generations. For instance, since Yiddish is only typically spoken by Jewish people, it is a dying language because it is only spoken, not written, and, as such, cannot be a global
In many countries, native speakers from different cultures have been punished or exterminated for not using the dominant language of that country. McWhorter talks about Native Americans and the Aboriginal people of Australia, who are prime examples of how colonization forced these cultures to lose their native tongue and adapt to the invading conquers. Also, minority languages disappear if they are only being spoken rather than being written, such is the case for the Navajo and the Australian Aboriginals.
Difficult and unwritten languages will disappear because of the value placed on dominant languages. For many native speaking people, larger languages are associated with more success and more opportunities than smaller languages, which leads many parents from small cultures to stop teaching their original languages to future generations. For instance, since Yiddish is only typically spoken by Jewish people, it is a dying language because it is only spoken, not written, and, as such, cannot be a global