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Board Economics
Re: Can the US win the currency war?
by
EternalWingsofGod
on 07/07/2015, 09:04:32 UTC
No.

Mandarin is the most widely spoken language. Then Spanish. English is 3rd or 4th with Hindi - depending on what stats you read (that's including the butchered american version)  Wink

http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0775272.html

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_languages_by_number_of_native_speakers

In business terms English did gain its dominance before the internet but it did help to enforce that standard.
That said in the future if China increases its sphere of business influence enough we might see some bilingualism in the business languages.
Basically whereever the most money piles up.