What Languge represents Asia BEST?

Mein Jobs   Fri Apr 04, 2008 5:17 am GMT
Chinese,Arabic,Hindi,or Japanese?

what do you think?
Guest   Fri Apr 04, 2008 1:13 pm GMT
Mandarin, since it's the most spoken one and China is the most important country in Asia.
Guest   Fri Apr 04, 2008 1:18 pm GMT
Chinese -- in fact it best represents the future of world as a whole.
Guest55   Fri Apr 04, 2008 3:46 pm GMT
The most spoken language is the most representative. So the most representative in each continent are:


Global: English

Asia & Pacific: Chinese

Europe & CIS: Russian

Americas: Spanish

Africa & Middle East: Arabic


English, Chinese, Russian, Spanish and Arabic are the most representative languages.

We can see that Japanese, German and French are not in the list. These languages are less spoken.
furrykef   Fri Apr 04, 2008 4:37 pm GMT
Chinese, because the Chinese language has had a very significant influence on Korean, Vietnamese, and Japanese. Japanese is also written using Chinese characters (in addition to their own native characters), and Korean uses Chinese characters from time to time.

- Kef
Guest   Fri Apr 04, 2008 5:51 pm GMT
<<Global: English>>

Chinese is the most spoken language globally, so English also disappears from the list, unless you split up the Americas into North America and South America, or North America and Latin America.
Guest   Fri Apr 04, 2008 6:04 pm GMT
North America is Latin too: French is spoken in Quebec and Spanish in North Mexico and some US states.
guest   Fri Apr 04, 2008 6:31 pm GMT
<,Chinese, because the Chinese language has had a very significant influence on Korean>>

but this influence, although still present--is hardly recognizable today. The words borrowed from ancient Chinese into ancient Korean do not resemble their modern Chinese counterparts much; hardly at all, so it's not a boon as far as providing adequate support for Chinese linguistically.
Guest   Sat Apr 05, 2008 10:04 am GMT
he most spoken language is the most representative. So the most representative in each continent are:

Global: English and French

Asia: Chinese, Hindi, Bahasa, Russian, and Japanese

Europe: Russian, German, French, and English

Americas: English, Spanish, Portuguese, and French

Africa: French, English, Arabic, Portuguese and Swahili

Middle East: Arabic

Pacific: English and French

Indian Ocean Area: French and English

English and French are ever present everywhere so they are global languages.

We can see that Chinese and German are hust restricted to Asia and Americas respectively. These languages are never spoken outside their turf.

Besides Hispanic America learning Mandarin Chinese but the Chinese have English and French as their first foreign languages.
Guest   Sat Apr 05, 2008 10:07 am GMT
East Asia , Arabic. West Asia ,Chinese . South Asia ,Hindi .North Asia ,Russian.
Guest   Sat Apr 05, 2008 8:41 pm GMT
''Korean uses Chinese characters from time to time''
Once in a blue moon.
K. T.   Sun Apr 06, 2008 3:01 am GMT
Why "Languge" all the time? Is this a running joke?

Chinese.
mac   Mon Apr 07, 2008 2:19 am GMT
<< Asia: Chinese, Hindi, Bahasa, Russian, and Japanese >>
<< Middle East: Arabic >>

<< English and French are ever present everywhere so they are global languages. >>

Everywhere? Really? Especially French? Obviously not in Asia. English is present in Asia as the most important foreign language to learn and also as an offical language in India. You can try to spin it anyway you want, but in reality, French has no significant presence in Asia.


<< Americas: English, Spanish, Portuguese, and French >>

This is more accurate as there are 2 continents:

North America: English, Spanish, French

South America; Spanish and Portugese
JLK   Mon Apr 07, 2008 3:40 am GMT
This is really a silly question. Practically all the languages in Asia are national languages and have little application outside their respective borders. Try using Mandarin in Tokyo or Indonesia and see how far it gets you. Hell, Mandarin doesn't even cover all of China. Hundreds of millions of Chinese can't speak it. Even in the so-called Mandarin speaking regions in the North East, the pronunciation is vastly different from city to city. For all practical purposes, English best represents Asia as you can get by with it just about everywhere.
Dell   Mon Apr 07, 2008 3:42 am GMT
<< Everywhere? Really? Especially French? Obviously not in Asia. English is present in Asia as the most important foreign language to learn and also as an offical language in India. You can try to spin it anyway you want, but in reality, French has no significant presence in Asia. >>

Really? Oh don't get insecure just because Spanish is just spoken in Spain and South America.

French is being revived in Vietnam and its presence in Laos is still there. French is now required in HS curricual in Pakistan for your information.

But you can't deny the fact the French is so strong in Africa and Spanish is rapidly disapperaning in that continent.