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Want To Know The Language Of The Future? The Data Suggests It Could Be...French
by Pascal-Emmanuel Gobry
March 21, 2014

French may be a beautiful language, but few would argue it’s the most useful, and almost nobody would argue it’s the language of the future. …

Here’s the thing: the data suggests that French language just might be the language of the future.

French isn’t mostly spoken by French people, and hasn’t been for a long time now. The language is growing fast, and growing in the fastest-growing areas of the world, particularly sub-Saharan Africa. The latest projection is that French will be spoken by 750 million people by 2050.

A study by investment bank Natixis even suggests that by that time, French could be the most-spoken language in the world, ahead of English and even Mandarin.

Read the full article at http://www.forbes.com/sites/pascalemmanuelgobry/2014/03/21/want-to-know-the-language-of-the-future-the-data-suggests-it-could-be-french