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The main language of the future

Currently, 40 per cent of the world's estimated 7,000 languages may go extinct, having less than 1,000 speakers.

Chinese is the largest language if we include only native speakers, but English is the largest if we include native and non-native speakers. English is the language of science, the internet and much academic research and is likely to remain important in the future.

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