Will English Be The Dominant Language Forever?

There are more than 6800 languages spoken all over the world. Even though English is the global and universal language of today's world, it will not last as a dominant language for more than seventy years. English as a language will expand more in the next thirty years. But as soon as it reaches its climax, it will declaim later on.

English as any other language can be influenced by several factors. A lot of researches have been done in this field. According to some experts in Harvord University, there are basically two pressures on the English language. First, English will be the universal language as long as the United States controls the world. Once U.S.A looses the grip on things, English will be lost. For instance, when the Roman Empire collapsed as a country, its language, Latin, separated into three languages (Spanish, Italian, Portuguese). Second, there is a theory that the lack of formal grammar teaching in foreign countries contrasting with the formal English grammar teaching to second language learners will lead to a new kind of English.

A language can be imagined as a human being. It grows until it reaches its peak. However, once it reaches the peak, it will go down again and less people will speak that language. Therefore, it does not matter how long a language is going to live because it will die one day.