Spoken languages evolution | Top 10 list of spoken languages
in this article you will find the general statistic of spoken languages on earth. and lets go back in time a little bit.
To find another list so we can know how the future will be like. Many changes happens in the world, affecting the spoken languages.
Such as war, economy, internet and may more.
A. the official list in 2019 of top 10 spoken languages
According to fast google search, about top 10 spoken languages on earth you will find this list on top:
1. Mandarin Chinese (1.1 billion speakers)
2. English (983 million speakers)
3. Hindustani (544 million speakers)
4. Spanish (527 million speakers)
5. Arabic (422 million speakers)
6. Malay (281 million speakers)
7. Russian (267 million speakers)
8. Bengali (261 million speakers)
9. Portuguese (229 million speakers)
10. French (229 million speakers)
B. Top 10 list of spoken languages in 2009
When we get back in time, to the year 2009 (10 years from his article). we can find many difference, that will tell us about the future how it will be. but first let me show you the list of top 10 spoken languages in 2009:
1. Mandarin Chinese 918 million speakers
2. Spanish 480 million speakers
3. English 480 million speakers
4. Hindustani 341 million speakers
5. Bengali 228 million speakers
6. Portuguese 221 million speakers
7. Russian 154 million speakers
8. Japanese 128 million speakers
9. Western Punjabi 92.7 million speakers
10. Marathi 83.1 million speakers
After we see this list, we can see the difference. It is a huge difference, many languages jumped out of the list.
Many others jumped in. The rest changed in position in exception of Mandarin Chinese.
C. Reasons caused to change the list of top 10 spoken languages
After 2009 the world has changed. Those changes affect the spoken languages directly such as :
1. technology:
we all know the main source of products come from China. With huge population, China decided to use the Mandarin as the main spoken language in the country. Including schools, government organizations.Factories and workers found the language popular around them, to communicate with others and even to get a job. Many companies
and factories had specifications to accept the worker to the job and one of them is the Mandarin language. In this way the tech
industry forced huge amount of people to learn the language and you can imagine if it is in country like China with 1/3 of earth
population.
English jumped to the race because of technology field also, the space program and the internet helped the English language to jump up
to the second spoken language on earth. first thing you need to use the internet is English, programming languages depend on English.
from here you can see why Mandarin and English jumped to the first and second spoken languages on earth, one control the physical products,
the other control the data and software inside it.
From here we can jump to the second thing that affected the list to be changed and it is war and terrorism.
2. War and terrorism:
After the jump that caused by technology, collecting data was easy to use it for their own reasons, in good and bad.The USA army took the challenge after 9 11 and start a large war on terrorism. After that war, the USA didn't stop and got the idea to change the geographic map, and that caused to send troops on fields with direct contact with other civilizations.
The strong rules, is the equation. To communicate with locals, to protect soldiers and many reasons. The USA army open schools to teach the English language, with more population likes the idea of the victory, they start learning the English.
Arabic jumped fast to the list, because of war and threat. The western part didn't realize the different first, and listed all Arabs as terrorists, and Islamophobia. That caused many countries to rebuild a new educational system, the Arabic language was the first change, to be the main spoken language in schools and government organizations and facilities.
The Arabic was divided into many languages, according to the UN. each country has its own accent and not a different language, that caused a review from the UN and considered Arabic as one language.
French jumped out of the list. When Arabs decided to use the Arabic as main language. Many of Arabic countries were occupied by France, those counties were forced to talk the french language. France named them as Francophone countries.
After changes took place in those countries, they didn't find a real use for the french language more than a " Salon language ".
At the moment, Arabic and English are the main languages in all Arab world ( 22 countries), even if it is not official from governments.
This was the real reason of changes happened on the top 10 languages list from 2009 to 2019.
witch language do you think will be the most spoken language after 10 years ?
this question will be up to you, to read the technology, wars and economy map, then to answer this question.
thank you
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