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Anyone who believes Spanish will be the majority spoken language has never interacted with the children of immigrants. The kids speak English better than they speak Spanish.
30 years from now, the number of Spanish speakers will be a fraction of what it is today.
I was once in the Miami area and went to a walmart in Doral - no joke I could not find a single person who could speak English. Not a staffer, not a manager. I don't think this is the future of America, but I do think it's the future of several sub regions
As of 2017 Hispanics were about 18% of the population. Even if all 59 million of them spoke Spanish that language would never be the dominant one in the United States.
You also have to consider that the black population and the Asian population would be less likely to ever want to learn another language, probably more so than the whites.
The Hispanics that refuse to learn English, the main language in this country, will have to be content with their 57 cable channels and not assimilating into the American culture.
I was once in the Miami area and went to a walmart in Doral - no joke I could not find a single person who could speak English. Not a staffer, not a manager. I don't think this is the future of America, but I do think it's the future of several sub regions
Probably will be mostly regional, and/or influence our current form of English in general, because that is how language works.
Think about the English speakers in 1066, when they suddenly found their country being run by speakers of Norman French. It worked itself out, and partly because of that, we have the form of English we speak now. In a hundred years, American English may have many more words incorporated from Spanish than it does now. That's just the way language works.
Latinos influx into this country is large and constant. It's much cheaper for them to have children here (especially with welfare systems in place) and they greatly outnumber other races when it comes to birthrates.
Is this trend going to slow down or ramp up?
Never going to happen. The children and grandchildren of "Latino" immigrants do NOT speak Spanish. There is no generational transfer of the Spanish language in the United States.
Spanish is not a growing language in the United States. It's just an immigrant language.
Latinos influx into this country is large and constant. It's much cheaper for them to have children here (especially with welfare systems in place) and they greatly outnumber other races when it comes to birthrates.
Is this trend going to slow down or ramp up?
Back in the 70's there was a big story about the growing Latino community globally and how English would fall as THE major language.
I wish I could find it.
I wonder if it met the forecasts of that article yet?
I can’t answer OP’s question. That said Hispanics have been here since the late 1400’s, Spanish the first European language spoken in the New Word, and mostly still is.
South America is part of America ... so thats a done deal.
The MAJORITY did speak Guaraní followed by several others like Cree, Sioux, Yup'ik, Hopi, Inupait, Arapaho, Oneida ... the list goes on.
Europeans pretty much made all those languages all but extinct. Now the complaint is one of those European languages is superseding another after destroying hundreds of other languages?
Not because most in these areas cannot speak and understand English, but because
they prefer to speak Spanish.
And that to me screams non-assimilation out in mainstream America. I don't give a hoot what language they speak in their own homes. Yes, there is no law against speaking a foreign language in public but why if one knows English or worse yet refuses to learn it. It speaks of arrogance to me.
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