{"id":13410,"date":"2014-03-26T05:40:33","date_gmt":"2014-03-26T05:40:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/french-to-be-world-s-most-spoken-language-by-2050\/"},"modified":"2014-03-26T05:40:05","modified_gmt":"2014-03-26T05:40:05","slug":"french-to-be-world-s-most-spoken-language-by-2050","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/french-to-be-world-s-most-spoken-language-by-2050\/","title":{"rendered":"French to Be World\u2019s Most-Spoken Language by 2050"},"content":{"rendered":"

{{If the consensus seems to be that France is in a bad mood these days, one thing might cheer the country\u2019s citizens up: despite reports to the contrary, their language is alive and well.}}<\/p>\n

A recent study by French investment bank Natixis suggests that French could be the most-spoken language \u2013 ahead of even English and Mandarin \u2013 within 40 years.<\/p>\n

That projection, which estimates 750 million French speakers by 2050, is based on the fact that the language is spoken in the fastest-growing areas of the world, particularly sub-Saharan Africa.<\/p>\n

The methodology of the study has been disputed, notably by Forbes, since it counts all inhabitants of countries in which French is an official language as Francophone.<\/p>\n

Still, the report comes as good news for defenders of the French tongue, which remains an official language of major international bodies like the UN, EU and Olympics Committee.<\/p>\n

The Natixis report comes on the heels of a New York Times article about a French-language renaissance in New York \u2013 at least in public schools, where bilingual French-English curriculums are becoming increasingly common and popular.<\/p>\n

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