Languages of the future after fall of the American Empire?

fµck fascism & capita   Sun Mar 29, 2009 3:33 pm GMT
Which languages will be the most important in the future after the American Empire has crumbled?

What do you think?

Chinese, Arabic, Spanish, Russian?
stopchinese   Sun Mar 29, 2009 3:37 pm GMT
Hittite and Tocharian A and B
Anti-American   Sun Mar 29, 2009 3:49 pm GMT
If America falls, Spanish will fall too.

Arabic is a Third World language. Once their oil is out nobody will give a rats ass about the Arabic world anymore.

Better learn Chinese and Russian because Asia is the future!
Clever guy   Sun Mar 29, 2009 3:50 pm GMT
Well, English, Spanish and Chinese will be the 3 must learn languages.

English will remain an important language because it is the only global language. Even when America will be the second or third most important language, after China and European Union, English will be very important.

Spanish and Chinese will be the most spoken languages in Western World and Asia respectively. So, these 3 languages will be the most important.

We should take into account that these 3 languages are the most important in Internet (Internet users).

All the speakers of Mandarin, Cantonese and other Chinese languages write in the same way. All of them understand written Chinese.

At the same time Portuguese and Italian speakers understand written Spanish. All together, the Spanish-Portuguese-Italian speakers are over 800 million people.

Finally, English is not only the first language of USA and UK. It is also the second language of India, Pakistan, European Union, some African Countries, Philippines, Singapore, etc. It is a global language.

So, if you write a webpage in Chinese, English and Spanish, it will be understood by half of the World population, and by over half of the Internet users.
CommonAswhole   Sun Mar 29, 2009 3:55 pm GMT
Hindi. Spanish will be the lingua franca of the USA btw.
Are you sure?   Sun Mar 29, 2009 3:56 pm GMT
At the same time Portuguese and Italian speakers understand written Spanish

troppe scemenze, talvolta non ci si accorge! Can you understand me? What an idiot!
greg   Sun Mar 29, 2009 4:33 pm GMT
Probablement le russe en Alaska. La Russie pourrait bien réserver un chien de sa chienne aux États-Unis qui l'ont provoquée via le projet d'extension de l'OTAN à l'Ukraine et à la Géorgie.
Buck   Sun Mar 29, 2009 5:09 pm GMT
>Probablement le russe en Alaska.

No way, unless the United States is dumb enough to give up nuclear weapons. If the Russians attempted to take Alaska, they would be repelled either with conventional weapons or -- if necessary -- with nuclear weapons.
Guest   Sun Mar 29, 2009 5:44 pm GMT
If America falls, Spanish will fall too.

Spanish is spoken in more countries appart from America. Furthermore , Spanish is not even official in USA, so Spanish will not lose a lot if the American Empire collapses.
Guest   Sun Mar 29, 2009 5:51 pm GMT
they would be repelled either with conventional weapons or -- if necessary -- with nuclear weapons.

USA can't use nuclear weapons against Russia , another nuclear power, unless they don't mind to be nuked too.
Buck   Sun Mar 29, 2009 7:01 pm GMT
>unless they don't mind to be nuked too.

Of course they mind being nuked, but the whole point of nuclear deterrence (which has prevented a major world war for more than half a century) is to assure your enemy that -- if they are foolish enough to attack you -- you will choose mutual destruction rather than submit to defeat.

If you were the Russians, would you take that kind of risk? (They haven't been willing to in the half century that this threat has existed, and let's hope that they won't be willing to in the future.)
doommonger   Sun Mar 29, 2009 7:27 pm GMT
I suppose the ultimate language will be Chinese. I think we have to assume that once the West collapses and China gains total domination over the world, they will eliminate all/most non-Chinese, and will repopulate the whole world with ethnic Chinese.

Of course, all bets are off if China starts succumbing to Political Correctness, and loses its taste for mass genocide and world conquest.
Shuimo   Sun Mar 29, 2009 7:28 pm GMT
doommonger Sun Mar 29, 2009 7:27 pm GMT
I suppose the ultimate language will be Chinese. I think we have to assume that once the West collapses and China gains total domination over the world, they will eliminate all/most non-Chinese, and will repopulate the whole world with ethnic Chinese.

Of course, all bets are off if China starts succumbing to Political Correctness, and loses its taste for mass genocide and world conquest.
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^______^   Sun Mar 29, 2009 7:43 pm GMT
<<If America falls, Spanish will fall too.>>


On the contrary. Mexicans are returning to Mexico at this time. Mexico will recover its huge population that has emigrated to USA. The central Americans and South Americans who immigrated to the USA are also coming back at this moment.

The Spanish language is perhaps the most benefited with the collapse of USA .....

SOURCES:

Inmigrantes no ven futuro en Estados Unidos

http://www.vocero.com/noticia-10026-inmigrantes_no_ven_futuro_en_estados_unidos.html

Inmigrantes ecuatorianos regresan a su pais agobiados por la crisis norteamericana

http://miltonramirez.org/2009/03/20/inmigrantes-ecuatorianos-regresan-a-su-pais-agobiados-por-la-crisis-norteamericana/

Inmigración se revierte por la crisis económica

http://www.hoy.com.ec/noticias-ecuador/inmigracion-se-revierte-por-la-crisis-economica-340202.html



IN THIS MOMENT, NORTH AMERICANS ARE EMIGRATING TO ARGENTINA.........

Historias de estadounidenses que por la crisis huyeron a Buenos Aires

http://www.clarin.com/diario/2009/03/21/um/m-01881483.htm


Spanish is becoming world's lingua franca, congratulations to spanish native speakers!!!
french-spanish girl   Sun Mar 29, 2009 9:48 pm GMT
Spanish is becoming world's lingua franca, congratulations to spanish native speakers!!!

yes! it will be great if this was true.