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Not today of course but I read somewhere Hispanics are "taking over" America in a way that they will be majority around 2050. The UK likely leaving the EU will result in fewer people willing to learn it on the "continent" and assuming they seek some union with Russia/China: more people there open to English.
Hell even in one Israeli city they've forbidden to the local politicians to speak English in an attempt to retain Hebrew.
Many American born Hispanics are not interested in the Spanish language. They are not interested in learning it or retaining it. American popular culture is very influential.
Spanish has more native speakers but including learners, English has more. The most still belongs to Mandarin. If we include "passable" English is the top most spoken language at about 1/7th of the worlds population speaking it natively and non natively with about half of that fluently and the other half being some stuff closer to a southeast asian language which is being ironically learned by native speakers. Chaucer is dead.
Don´t you consider for example Nigerian, south African or Indian like native English speakers?
I think although they have others languages like tongue mother language, most part of them specially urban inhabitants are really fluently in English so English has so many speakers because that.
Am I wrong?
For example Paraguayans, Bolivians, Peruvians many Mexicans also speak native American language and perfect Spanish and Spanish count them like native speakers. All Paraguayans are able to speak guarani language in the area of Brazil that I am from a lot of places names are in guarani we don’t have idea what the names means but Paraguayans when come here know.
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