Languages of the world in a hundred years

... future of the language has been, and remains inescapable, as, indeed, to all sorts of other forecasts. In order to characterize the situation in the linguistic prediction and in the area that it is trying to study (in other words, tries to predict the future development of the world languages), first of all, it is necessary to briefly explain what the development of language means and what questions on its future status are usually asked. Meanwhile, speaking of the “future of the language” really means some very ...