Sunday, June 28, 2015

The language of the future Neither English nor Mandarin

Reprinted nearly verbatim from RantWoman's email. Interesting assertion.

Factchecking may be warranted.

Also Mr. JAWS the screen reader sometimes autodetects foreign languages and sometimes not. RantWoman's options are change the speech synthesizer language  manually, but up with Spanish read with English phonetics or read some help files and figure out whether there are otehr options. Too much fun.

Sorry, non-Spanish speakers: this article is entirely in Spanish. However, you can read the chart. The columns are Country, Population, and % of Spanish-speakers. The article states that there are 24 countries in the world with Spanish as an official language. The chart presents figures for the 15 countries with the largest numbers of Spanish-speakers.

Article:

"This will be the language of the future, and it is neither English nor Mandarin."
Este será el idioma del futuro, y no es inglés ni mandarín

http://www.semana.com/educacion/articulo/este-sera-el-idioma-del-futuro-no-es-ingles-ni-mandarin/432699-3
Vale la pena destacar que Estados Unidos es el quinto país con más hispanoparlantes. Como informa el Instituto Cervantes, dentro de tres o cuatro generaciones el 10 por ciento de los habitantes de la tierra se entenderá en español y Estados Unidos será el país con mayor volumen de población hispanohablante, aún por encima de México.

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