 Re: Is it possible that Chinese would take the palce of English?
Bob ,
Chinese that includes the official Pu Tong Hua and the other Han tongues seems to reach one billion of mother-tongue speakers, English the half of it.( according to the Quid)
Linguasphere reckons an equality between Chinese and English.
Summer Institute of Linguistics give an edge to Chinese with 885 million speakers vs 332 for English.
What about a Cokney Mandarin? Give me my tit ( for tat)... I fancy a toll ( a roll?) |