Disclaimer: this is my opinion and might not be true 100% of the time
Let's redefine "language privilege": it's basically how close your native language is to English.
So, with that in mind, we can create a brief tierlist of languages by how privileged their native speakers are, including a brief rationale for why they are privileged
Tier 1: English (it's English)
Tier 2: Other germanic languages (German, Dutch, Swedish, etc.). Wealthy countries with good education + same language family as English
Tier 3: Romance languages (Spanish, French, Portuguese and Italian, especially French). Due to significant lexical similarity with English and somewhat similar grammatical structures
Tier 4: Slavic languages (Russian, Polish, Ukrainian, etc). Small lexical similarity with English, and Indo-European grammar.
Tier 5: Indo-Iranian languages (Hindi, Urdu, etc). Heavy incentive to learn English + Still Indo-European.
Tier 6: Sino-Tibetan (Mandarin, Cantonese, etc). Chinese are learning English en masse and China does a lot of business with the world
If you'd like to add more tiers or change a language family's classification within this list, feel free to do so.
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