Is English also starting to replace more prominent languages?

Hello! Not sure if this is the right Subreddit to ask this, so feel free to comment where it may fit better. I'm asking because in the YouTube comment section of a video about language death, someone claimed that even languages like Dutch and Swedish were getting marginalized by English. So I asked again to see if this was correct and as proof they answered that there were signs, like in Sweden TV hosts were forgetting Swedish idioms and switching to English instead and in the Netherlands people felt pressured increasingly to use English instead of Dutch at work and big cities and that there were similar issues in Portugal apparently. So is English being the international language finally also taking its toll on native languages of highly educated countries that are very good at speaking English as a second language and are their inhabitants really starting to abandon their own languages?

Posted Aug 3, 2025, 8:58 PM UTC

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