Re: World Lingos

Why leave out 1/2 of humanity, well, many of the lingos mentioned below
are either for all purposes shadings of other lingos. Portugese for one,
Italian for another, Catalan and others. Some Are just small populations
that are isolated, or just not much going on with them and many are on
their way out as lingos.
Some are just localized. Some are former international lingos, but are
on their way out, such as French, it is still used alot, but what future
does it have? I know it is still used in some international groups, same
with German. But.
Some of the lingo speakers also speak another lingo as a auxlang, such
as many Scandinavians and Germans also speak English. Russians, for now
are on the way down economically/power.

English is an acknowledged Auxlang. Even with all its shading, heard a
Newfie just recently and she was hard to understand.
Spanish is growing as a group, might one day even replace English in
some areas. But Portugese and Italian are combined with European Spanish
especially are basically the same lingo, just for political reasons are
called Languages, versus Dielects. Basically if three people who each
speak one of the lingos got together, the basic things in life can be
talked about with a minimum of work.
Hindi/Urdu, yes many who speak it also speak English, but it is one of
the major lingos of the Indian Sub-Continent, are but shadings of each
other.

Mandarin Chinese due in part to the very violent means of teaching it,
has become spoken by a large percentage of the billion people of China.
Much the same with Hindi/Urdu India/Pakistan.
Arabic is spoken if not as a primary lingo, but as a religious Auxlang
by a large percentage of the worlds population, many who are now slowly
growing in the US as well as worldwide.
I will admit there maybe some room for inclusion, but I was basically
going on realistic current conditions, or likely potential lingos for
world domination in the next 100 years. Many of the world lingos are
just not large, some are yes coming back, but many are on their way
out.. Never know as humanity spread out into space and such that some
will survive, but ..

I know some possible over generalizations, but ... Is it realistic?

Mike
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This leaves out half of humanity, maybe more.
Why ignore Portuguese, Bengali, German, Russian,
French, Japanese, Turkish, Persian, Italian, Tamil,
Javanese, Korean etc.?

And why should "smaller" languages be treated as if
irrelevant?
Greek, Catalan, Hausa, Polish, Gujarati, Tagalog,
Dutch, Amharic, Romanian, Cantonese, Swedish,
Thai, Vietnamese etc. etc. are all part of the reality
out there.

And so are the even smaller languages, like Albanian,
Basque, Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, Estonian, Finnish,
Ga, Hebrew, Ilocano, Irish, Kannada, Lao, Lingala,
Maltese, Navaho, Oriya, Papiamentu, Quechua,
Raratongan, Slovene, Tibetan, Uighur, Venda, Welsh,
Xhosa, Yoruba, Zulu, etc.




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