What do you think a PERFECT language should be like, whether it is in actual existence or not?
What do you think a PERFECT language should be like?
No male and female genders. What a lot of groundwork that would save. Genders don't really add anything to a language anyway. Who actually cares whether a table is a boy or a girl? Are we culturally enriched by such knowledge?
In my opinion the perfect language would be a frequency based language, rather than based on different phenomes. That is, only one sound 'aaahh' or something, but the frequency imparts meaning in the same was as an alphabet. For the sake of example, something like:
a= aaaaah at 30-40 Hz
b= aaaaah at 40-50 Hz
c= aaaah at 50-60 Hz
d = aaaah at 60-70 Hz
and so on...
a= aaaaah at 30-40 Hz
b= aaaaah at 40-50 Hz
c= aaaah at 50-60 Hz
d = aaaah at 60-70 Hz
and so on...
I wonder if you enjoy buildings with good acoustics, and tuning pianos.
A perfect language should be a mixture of Slavic languages and Romance languages, that is a language with lots of verb tenses and moods, cases and articles.
It should be a mixture of English and Spanish in the Western World, with the phonetic system of Spanish and the grammar and verbs of English.
In Asia, it should be a mixture between Chinese and English. English grammar and Chinese vocabulary. Whitout tones. Latin alphabet.
Using Spanglish and Chinglish you would travel around the World.
In Asia, it should be a mixture between Chinese and English. English grammar and Chinese vocabulary. Whitout tones. Latin alphabet.
Using Spanglish and Chinglish you would travel around the World.
Why should the perfect language be easy? The harder the better.....I am not keen on learning simple languages, they're quite boring
If the perfect language is the simplest, I suppose you'd want:
- no tones
- syllable timing
- only 20 or so easy sounds: a e i o u (spanish vowels), and simple consonants like p, b, t, d, f, v, g, k, m, n, s z
- no inflections/conjugations at all (no tense, number, mood, voise, personal endings, etc.)
- no gender, or noun cases at all
- completely phonetic spelling in a simple alphabet
- easy word order
- no articles
Question: Would a simplified language like this actually be functional?
Should we allow prefixes and suffixes that change one word (an adjective, for example) into another (a verb, like "enlarge" or lengthen"), or does this add unwanted complexity?
- no tones
- syllable timing
- only 20 or so easy sounds: a e i o u (spanish vowels), and simple consonants like p, b, t, d, f, v, g, k, m, n, s z
- no inflections/conjugations at all (no tense, number, mood, voise, personal endings, etc.)
- no gender, or noun cases at all
- completely phonetic spelling in a simple alphabet
- easy word order
- no articles
Question: Would a simplified language like this actually be functional?
Should we allow prefixes and suffixes that change one word (an adjective, for example) into another (a verb, like "enlarge" or lengthen"), or does this add unwanted complexity?
I am not keen on learning simple languages, they're quite boring.-poiu
Which ones have you studied?
Which ones have you studied?
Which ones have you studied?
German, HUngarian Russian, Basque, They are not particulary difficult in my opinion but they are supposed to be hard
German, HUngarian Russian, Basque, They are not particulary difficult in my opinion but they are supposed to be hard