Future Languages by Number of Speakers (2100, 2300, 2500) Top 10+5 Most Spoken in the World

What will our grand-grandsons be speaking in 2500? I know this sounds crazy but I do believe that the French language will have an unexpected upswing by the end of this century and it could potentially go on to enjoy a shared leadership position with English in the next few centuries. My predictions about the top 10+5 most spoken languages of the future are based on my own knowledge about languages and the current social and political trends in the world. This video is not a work of science. It basically reflects my personal views about how the linguistic aspects of our world will change in 2050, 2100, and beyond and it is actually a simplistic and summarized version of what I think will happen to languages when we are no longer around to see it. There are some factors that I deliberately ignored when making this video because they are too unpredictable to include. For instance, how will our interaction with the AI transform the languages we speak? What about conlangs? Could a conlang, one day, grow enough to have a significant impact on the global culture? As for the languages I included in this video, let me explain them a little bit. Language is a very hard category to define. What are the boundaries of a certain language? Say Chinese. My approach was totally unscientific, as I essentially tried to make a video that was intelligible to everyone. So, I categorized all Chinese dialects including Mandarin and Cantonese as one big language. The same is the case for Arabic. On the other hand, I treated Urdu and Hindi as separate languages based on the assumption that most speakers of these languages would see it that way. The top languages of today are English, Chinese, Hindi, Arabic, Spanish, Portuguese, French, Japanese, Russian, German, Malay, Urdu and Bengali. I believe Chinese, Hindi, and Russian will not have many speakers in the distant future - centuries later - for different reasons. For Hindi, it is the growing prevalence of English among Indian people. For Russian, it is the obvious demographic decline. For Chinese, it is a demographic decline combined with an influx of immigrants. I believe China will resort to some sort of massive immigration program in the late 21st century to keep the country running in the face of super-low birth rates. The incomers will not be interested in keeping the Chinese language alive. I also mentioned two mixed languages that I think will emerge sometime in the next few centuries. The first one is Hinglish, which already is a thing. The second one is a mixture of French and English. I believe this mixed language will eventually form in the super-multi-ethnic overpopulated megacities of future Africa. I named it Camfranglais, which is a mixed Creole language that already exists in present-day Cameroon. Many things together decide whether the number of speakers of a particular language will fall or rise. One of the most important parameters is, without a doubt, the birth rate. If the population is rising in a country, the official language as well as other ethnic languages will be on the rise. We see this in Africa. In fact, Africa will decide the future of languages in the world. I believe better education in the coming decades will translate into more French and English speakers in Africa, which will ensure the long-term domination of these two languages. There are also many local African languages but I think only some of the major African languages will prevail, namely Hausa, Swahili and Oromo. Going back to our subject, education is also a key factor in the number of people who speak a language. This is the case of official languages and global languages. For instance, the number of people who speak English as a native mother tongue is not very spectacular. Oh! I am running out of space! Enjoy the video!

[marcelofranco]

Why do you think Spanish would drop so bad?

[Dakxyz]

Please make a part 2 to this! Maybe a future where Camfranglais and English are the last two remaining languages..? English holds out with 900M as Camfranglais goes up to 900M Speakers? Then English slowly dies and Camfranglais is the only remaining language left?

[mep]

After watching this video, I'm so glad that I can speak both English and French. I don't know what will happen to my mother tongue Spanish since it's still growing exponentially, especially in the US

[josearellano]

Yes, like in the second half of the 22nd century French can replace English as the global lingua Franca. But Latin America and Asia are still into increasing their populations in the future, so I can say that Mandarin Chinese, Spanish and English, among some other languages, will also keep growing. I won't be alive in the 25th century for Camfranglais to be dominant, but it's fine if that's the lingua Franca of the world by then. My descendants who are to be alive in the 25th century can know Camfranglais in their lives. By 2500 the world could have only hundreds of languages left.

[Novusod]

Why would Chinese and Hindi disappear into nothing?

[بحرخلجي]

I think my brother that the number of Arabic speakers will be greater in the future because some Islamic nationalists want Arabic to be the language of their country and also because of the spread of Arabic schools in some African countries with an Islamic majority

[ngumzakwanza]

CAN YOU PLEASE GIVE ME A LIST OF LANGUAGES THAT WENT EXTINCT?

[VillaOfOrmen]

Yikes. Totally off, but good for you for being brave enough to put out projections that you personally think - without strong data.

[johnjhon]

What Malay (Melayu). Few people use it, I think, you mean is Bahasa Indonesia.

[ngumzakwanza]

WHAT WILL YOUR PROJECTIONS SAY ABOUT 3000?

[karpagamsiva]

super Iam a tamilan tamil language exist in future

[Kuzamori]

French over taking English my biggest nightmare 😂

Just joking 👍

[DNF]

No at that time Arabic will become the most popular language in the world than English & Chinese or any other languages

[rasmuscallason]

What the hell? Chinese will be less than Swedish? 3:24 What the hell is wrong with this video. I never saw such a bullshit😂

[salasrcp]

haha 😂 esto debe de ser una broma, aquellas cifras no son convincentes, se ven totalmente arbitrarias 🤦🏻