Jenkins, J. (2009) Who Speaks English Today?

While reading this article on the digital reserves, I was most interested in MacArthur's circle model of English showcasing a "World Standard English" at its center. Then surrounding the World English centerpiece were several varieties of English, such as American English and Asian English. Yet, within these subsets of Englishes, there were several fabrics of Englishes forming a single network for the entire standard of the circle. This became very interesting to me, as I noted that within American English there exist several varieties such as African American Vernacular English or Northern English. This goes back, in my opinion, to the idea that any language, like English is composed of many many layers. Within one language, we get subsets and groups of differentiation that allow variation from what is considered a standard to the language. This makes it impossible to me to say that there is a standard English.
Also, what fascinated me is the fact that the same circle map, showcased the places around the world where English has become an important part of the other language. And when I saw this map, seeing things such as East Asian English made up of Hong Kong English or Singapore English, we see the exact diagrams where colonization by English speaking peoples has taken place, and where it has impacted the speakers of these places. This idea made me wonder whether English will someday replace all languages around the world? Certainly, we hear every so often that a certain language x has died because there are no longer any surviving speakers of that language. If English has become such a dominant force in consumerism, economical transactions, and political change and manifestations, then is it possible it could continue to expand its behemoth size and wipe out every language imaginable? I, for one, would hate to see only one language.