Many things are taken into consideration
When analyzing the world's most powerful languages and we can categorize these reasons in five main categories
Which are the ability to travel widely?
the ability to earn a livelihood and participate in an economy the ability to communicate with others the ability to
acquire knowledge and consume media and the ability to engage in diplomacy and
International relations. How's it going? Everybody? My name is Leroy Kenton, and this is FTD facts
And in this episode we're looking at the top five most powerful languages
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Let's take a look at the PLI or the power language index
This is a system that is used to compare the efficiency of more than a hundred languages in these five specific categories that I mentioned
It does so by setting to the languages a set of 20 indicators such as GDP per capita
Taurus flows and the number of speakers in a coherent and robust way
Each of the languages is ranked for the doors that it opens in each of the domains
labeled geography
economy
communication knowledge and media and
Diplomacy. Those are the blanket terms that we're gonna be using and then an overall score is taken from these five sub rankings with diplomacy
Giving less weight than the first four categories
For example, there are more Chinese speaking people in the world and any other language
But it still ranks number two on the list because it's a relatively complex language. I
Guess I kind of spoiled a video before I got into it
But anyways with that in mind
Here's a list of the top five most powerful languages in the world
ranked according to the power language index starting at number five and then we count down to number one number five is the
Arabic language and its power language index rating is zero point two seventy three and the total native speakers in
Arabic are two hundred and ninety-five million Arabic is one of the most pop
International languages in the entire world and has earned its position at number five due to the rapid increase in the number of people practicing
Islam the interesting thing with Arabic is that even though the modern Standard Arabic is spoken by millions of people
Around the world the language can vary quite a bit from region to region
Due to different dialects spoken in the roughly 20 countries where it's used as the primary language
the fourth most powerful language on this list is Spanish and the power language index rating is
0.329 there are
470 million native Spanish speakers. So Spanish with almost 500 million native speakers
It's rapidly gaining position on the next language that's gonna be in this episode
Spanish is a primary language in close to 20 countries and it's spoken all over
the world as a second language and the next language we're looking at is French and its power language index rating is
0.337
The total amount of French native speakers is 80 million societal differences also influence these rankings
Which is why French comes at this position on this list French comes in their place with results in geography and diplomacy
But is also one of the most aggressively promoted languages in the entire world knowing French carries a certain amount of prestige in
international diplomacy and for the language coming in second place on this list you
Already guessed it because I gave it away in the intro
it's the Mandarin Chinese and it's power language index rating is
0.41 won and they have a total of 960 million native speakers who speak Mandarin?
So of course Mandarin is number two on this list because most importantly it has close to a billion native speakers
Which is almost three times as much as any other language
but the truth is that it isn't really spoken much anywhere else outside of Southeast Asia other than in
Taiwan or other Chinese communities around the world and although the next language on this list
dominates the world in linguistic capacity
It is not impossible for Mandarin to one day challenge its supremacy which leads to a very interesting
Question, which Raja's would be the most powerful by the year?
2050 if we're still around at that time, and if FTD facts is still alive in the year 2050
We'll definitely be doing a video update on it
So that moves us now to number one our most powerful language in the world and many of you
Should have guessed this by now. It's English and its power language index rating is
0.889 there's a total of an estimated
446 million native English speakers English is a dominant language of 3 g7 nations
United States UK in Canada and the British legacy of colonization has given the language a global footprint
It's no surprise that 8 out of the 10
global financial centers in the world including London and New York are
Proficient English speaking cities the power of English as the most powerful
Language in the world has both positive and negative effects the downside. Is that the English ization?
If you will, I think I just made up a word
well, this has creeped into other lesser-known languages and cultures and threatens our survival of these lesser languages and their
Culture, but really it doesn't look like the spread of English and its influence is gonna be slowing down anytime soon
But we just have to wait and see a lot could change over the next few decades
So anyways, that was your list on the top five most powerful languages in the entire world
Let me know down below in the comment section
Which of these languages do you speak or what other language that wasn't in this video?
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