Leading linguist reveals language that will overtake English in the United States by 2050

Did you know that Spanish is already the second most commonly spoken native language in the world after Mandarin Chinese? It doesn’t stop there; some believe that one major power will eventually see this language replace English, which is currently the dominant tongue. The news of these predictions comes courtesy of the Huffington Post, with helpful reporting by Express and La Razón.

According to world-renowned linguist Humberto López Morales, who served as the secretary general of the Association of Academies of the Spanish Language, Spanish will replace English as the most spoken language in the United States in the coming decades.

The global power is already the country with the second-highest number of Spanish speakers in the world. As of November 2024, the number of Spanish speakers globally reached 600 million. Already, in some cities and neighborhoods in the US, Spanish is more likely to be heard than English.

When could Spanish surpass English?

According to López Morales, the timeframe in which the US is expected to embrace Spanish as the majority language is around 2050. In other words, within the next 25 years.

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