I don't think that languages like Esperanto have much of a chance of becoming a univeral internet language (not enough native speakers). But why English? it's only the dominant language of the Internet because the majority of Internet users are English speakers at the moment - in 20 years time, who's to say that will still be true? Remember that languages like Spanish, Mandarin and Urdu are spoken by many more people across the globe, but most of them don't have access (yet).
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I don't think that languages like Esperanto have much of a chance of becoming a univeral internet language (not enough native speakers). But why English? it's only the dominant language of the Internet because the majority of Internet users are English speakers at the moment - in 20 years time, who's to say that will still be true? Remember that languages like Spanish, Mandarin and Urdu are spoken by many more people across the globe, but most of them don't have access (yet).
So who's to say what will happen in the future??