You wouldn’t want a single language as that would make propaganda easy to distribute.

Yes. However, a reduction in languages is usually linked with major authoritian episodes. For example, the rise of Latin associated with the dominance of the Romans. Or English, French, and Spanish with colonial dominance.

Any future reduction in language diversity will likely, unfortunately, be linked with such a period. Wouldn’t want to live through it, but it’s probable it’ll occur at some point, if you give us a long enough timescale.

Esperanto ekzistas!

As a French Canadian with Catalan friends, fuck no.

Language is part of our culture. You can’t translate anything slightly complex perfectly because vocabulary doesn’t align between language. And that’s without going into idioms.

People will always make concerted efforts to preserve their heritage, so looking languages takes a cultural genocide like in Ireland. Since we consider this to be morally bankrupt, I don’t see it happening anytime soon.

No. We’ll all just speak into our translator voice box when we need to, and play our fun language games with our neighbors otherwise. I don’t think a universal language buys us anything.

I don’t really think so, nor do i believe it would be desirable.

Not in the next couple of hundred years.

Europe is a great example of how people have multiple languages and just work together. I can’t imagine France, Germany, or Italy at the very least giving up their languages.