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How Will Language Change in the Future?

What might happen to language in the future? What changes can we foresee based on what we know now? In this week's episode, we look at predictions for the future of language: how the past tense in English may change, how many of the world's languages may go extinct, and whether we'll all end up with a global language. This is Topic #51! This week's tag language: Guaraní! Last episode: Meaning Predicated on Logic:    • What Makes a Sentence True or False? Predi...   Other of our general linguistics videos: How do computers understand our speech?:    • How Do Computers Understand Our Speech?   Is linguistics a science?:    • Linguistics as a Science   Are made up languages really languages?:    • Constructed Languages   Find us on all the social media worlds: Tumblr:   / thelingspace   Twitter:   / thelingspace   Facebook:   / thelingspace   And at our website, https://www.thelingspace.com/ ! You can also find our store at the website, https://www.thelingspace.com/store/ Our website also has extra content about this week's topic at https://www.thelingspace.com/episode-51/ We also have forums to discuss this episode, and linguistics more generally. Sources: The Nature paper about the English past tense: http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/... Further description of Nature article: http://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story... Ethnologue Home: http://www.ethnologue.com/ Ethnologue on Paraguay: http://www.ethnologue.com/country/PY Resource Network for Language Diversity: http://rnld.org/ Endangered Language Fund: http://www.endangeredlanguagefund.org/ John McWhorter predictions about the future of language: http://www.wsj.com/articles/what-the-... UNESCO Interactive Map of World Languages in Danger: http://www.unesco.org/languages-atlas... Article about hub languages: http://www.pnas.org/content/111/52/E5... (full text at http://stevenpinker.com/publications/...) For more discussion of language loss and why languages become endangered and die, here are some links: A pamphlet on the topic from the LSA: http://www.linguisticsociety.org/file... A good short description of the topic: http://www.mtholyoke.edu/~alvar22n/Di... A discussion on the BBC: http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20140... Further, there's information about this on some of the sites linked to above, like the RNLD. Looking forward to next week!