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EFE \/ El Pa\u00eds<\/strong><\/a>, News Report, Posted: Feb 03, 2011<\/strong><\/p>\n

By 2050, 10 percent of the world population will speak Spanish and the United States will be the biggest Spanish-speaking country, the general secretary of the Association of Spanish Language Academies said Monday.<\/p>\n

Cuban writer and academic Humberto L\u00f3pez Morales made this prediction during his speech when he was awarded an honorary doctorate by the University of Valencia at a ceremony presided over by Spanish Education Minister Angel Gabilondo.<\/p>\n

He noted that the current situation of Hispanics in the United States is the result of a confluence of historical processes headed by Mexico at the beginning of the 20th century, followed by Puerto Rico, Cuba, the Dominican Republic and, more recently, Venezuela and Argentina.<\/p>\n

“Besieged by poverty and by the barriers that impeded access to decent salaries, a minimally acceptable home, basic conditions of health or the education of their children,” he said, the citizens of those countries emigrated to the “promised land.”<\/p>\n

“Knowing Spanish is … among other things, a business,” and in some states, like Florida, “Spanish is a good passport for obtaining a job,” he said.<\/p>\n

According to another study cited by L\u00f3pez Morales, “every minute that goes by, 2.5 Hispanics enter the stream of immigrants to the country, that is to say, 3,700 per day.”<\/p>\n

If the forecast is born out, the United States by 2050 will become the largest Spanish-speaking country in the world and Spanish will be the second-most-spoken language on the planet, surpassed only by Chinese.<\/p>\n

“If the course does not change, it’s very possible that within three or four generations 10 percent of the world population will understand Spanish. Let us hope so!” he concluded.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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