Will English Become the Only Language?

Note that there's no hope whatsoever that English will become a universal first language. ... Those populations of native speakers of other languages are all growing faster than the population of native English speakers. Much the same is true within the United States.

Will English be the only language in the world?

Thankfully, fears that English will become the world's only language are premature. ... One, there will be vastly fewer languages. Two, languages will often be less complicated than they are today—especially in how they are spoken as opposed to how they are written.

Will English language die out?

The American studies, philosophy and music expert at Columbia University, predicts that 90 per cent of languages will die out to leave around 600. ... This has already happened in some places because of colonisation, such as America and Australia, for example, where most native languages are extinct or about to die out.