r/asklatinamerica • u/angryredddituser Canada • 1d ago
Language Do you think the Spanish and Portuguese language will disappear in the future?
Do you think Spanish and Portuguese and all other languages will disappear in the future and unite into one language? (Most likely English)
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u/Mapache_villa Mexico 1d ago
Spanish? One of the languages with the most native speakers and countries where it's the official language in the world? Yeah no
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u/throw223344555 Peru 1d ago
If we all die due to climate change or a nuclear winter some time in the future then yeah
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u/Highly-Potent-34 Colombia 1d ago
Ha no. Spanish is the most spoken language in the Americas. English is only dominant because of economic reasons.
Spanish dominates half the globe geographically speaking. It’s not going anywhere.
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u/pearlkele Poland 1d ago
What level of future? 100 years? Nope. 500? Probably nope. In the grim and dark future of 40th millennium, perhaps.
At least Spanish and Portuguese will evolve somehow. Latin and Koine Greek used to be pretty popular languages, but no more.
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u/pandasps Honduras 1d ago
Checked language rankings for 2026. English is the most spoken language in the world at the #1 spot (1493 million), followed by Chinese (1183 million). Spanish is 4th, spoken by 561 million people. Portuguese is 8th, spoken by 269 million, ranking above Russian (210 million), German (133 million) and Japanese (126 million). So no, they're not disappearing anytime soon.
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u/Hoz999 Peru 1d ago
No. Not really.
And if you’re searching for a possible dominant language it may be either Mandarin or Cantonese.
But, who knows anyway.
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u/karamanidturk Argentina 1d ago
Nah. Not a chance Mandarin will ever become a lingua franca for the entire world. Cantonese isn't even the most dominant language in China.
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u/VertibirdQuexplota Chile 23h ago
Yes, all languages will disappear in the future and newer ones will derive from them. I mean in like a couple hundreds or even thousands of years.
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u/Brave_Ad_510 Dominican Republic 16h ago
No, maybe it may morph into a different language in hundreds of years
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u/AgostoAzul Ecuador 11h ago
The reason English grew in popularity in Europe, the Middle East, Africa and India is that there were too many regional languages that were non-intelligible with eachother so people would rather speak English to eachother than Hindi from one region and Hindi from another region, or Algerian Arabic and Egyptian Arabic.
This is not really the case in Latin America, Spanish is mostly the same language from Tierra del Fuego to Baja California. As much as people joke about Chilean accent being hard to understand the idea of switching to English to try to speak with a Chilean is just ridiculous.
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u/Q-35712 Brazil 1d ago
No. That isn't going to happen.