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Swedish, very pretty language
Türkçe not gendered (at all, everyone and everything is "o") and one of the easiest languages to learn
can you write an example, say, this message being translated to Turkish?
Also note that script is historically mostly used for communication over large distances and times.
Historical scriptures (such as the bible) got transported across half the globe and copied and passed down for more than a thousand years. The scripture transcends both space and time.
If you only want to communicate with your neighbour, you don't need a lingua franca. Lingua franca is exclusively for writing down, and communicating over very large distances (such as the internet). In that case, no pronounciation is needed. So it is possible to have an abstract sign language that doesn't even have a standardized pronounciation.
This might sound absurd at first, if you never thought about it, until you realize that is how a lot of our information is already transported. There are a lot of sketches and visualizations of important data that are graphics, plots, charts, drawings, and such, that don't have a standardized pronounciation. The information is transported visually.
One of the South American variants of Spanish, probably Argentinian. And I say that despite not speaking any Spanish.
The language itself is a contact language and heavily influenced by centuries of cohabitation with speakers of Arabic. That simplified a lot of the Indo-European complexities away.
The phonology - the sounds - of the language are clear and predictable and sufficiently different that a non-native speaker and their accent are not too troublesome in comprehension.
The language itself is already a world language, ranking 4th in number of native speakers.
I like the suggestion of Esperanto, which I do personally speak and which has all the advantages above, except already being a world language.
Klingon, so we can finally appreciate Shakespeare properly
Klingon or Quenya, both sounds like music (just of different genres)
Swahili speaker (native) here, fluent in English.
Language is a medium of communication between two or more parties. So long as they understand each other, all is good. whether they used klingon or Martian, it don't matter.
What i do know is that, if, hypothetically, internet throws a poll for people all over the world to choose language they will use for communication, every one, myself included, will hold their conner, defending how real and original the language that they are familiar with (and most definitely biased towards) is.
if you put it on a vote on the other hand, something different happens. In fact, it's been happening all along, silently and quietly at the back of our heads. From the first day surfing through the internet to buying your first own smartphone/laptop and choosing the default language for these devices, I know on my part I was driven by convenience. As the majority of media outlets use English. From the shows i watched to the role‐models i looked up on while growing up, they all circled around this fascinating slang that made them even more interesting. The internet's influence towards english made it easy (at least for me) to catch up real quick.
I will say this tho, hearing hakuna matata on the lion king was awesooome
One of the things that really excites me about the internet is its impact on the development of language. We're still at the very beginning of its impact, considering the timescale on which language has traditionally evolved, but I suspect that in time the advent of the internet will be considered a major inflection point in the history of language, maybe the single greatest inflection point in the history of language itself. All of a sudden, billions of people who otherwise would never have had the means to converse directly, are now able to converse directly with billions of other people all over the globe, in near real-time. I can't really imagine how that doesn't have a seismic impact on how human language evolves. I would love to jump forward in time a few centuries just to see how the things that are happening right now shake out in the long term.
For who? As in I have to stop using English and start using the language or as in the world will all now just speak this language, no qualifications? If it's the former, probably something like Esperanto. If it's the latter, Lojban.
Latin, or even better, Klingon
All I know is "petaQ" and "Heghlu'meH QaQ jajvam", but I suppose that should be enough to get by.
French, we could all be a little more french when keeping our leaders on a leash
I wouldn't, because everyone would just have to learn another new language if they learned English because it's the current one.
I would argue no one could choose one. A lingua franca is silently agreed upon over long periods of time. No committee sat down to make old Frankish the language of trade, modern French the language of diplomacy, and nowadays English the language of internet arguments.
If I had a magic wand though my vote is Klingon as well. Qa'plah.
Interlingua
Sindarin
Uzbek
Hmm, interesting. Do you have reasons, or was that just a random choice? I know pretty little about it. Actually, I'm not even sure if it's Turkic or Persian or something else.
Maybe wrong, but I believe this is from a language learning sub on reddit where people would ask what language they should learn without any other qualifiers. It was asked so frequently that people just started replying Uzbekistani.
Again, that's my memory of it, could be wrong.
https://www.reddit.com/r/languagelearning/comments/4sok49/is_uzbek_like_a_meme_on_this_subreddit/
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it would be funny
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