What would be a better lingua franca than English? Myself am fond of swedish, simple yet elegant
What would be a better lingua franca than English? Myself am fond of swedish, simple yet elegant
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Latin
Esperanto
Oh look another thread to make fun of the french
Fuck you cunt
What? French is in no way lingua franca today is it?
Neither is Swedish desu
Swahili
lojban
Scots
Sant, men det borde vara det
>Myself am fond of swedish, simple yet elegant
Latin should be the lingua franca desu
Why would it ever be swedish? Swedish is shit tea bee haytch
Det är sant, bara smaka på de orden jag skriver
A mix of cantonese and danish
Latin is only slightly less dead than Irish
Probably French or German
>haytch
triggered
>German
I'd rather nuke Dresden again
Good lad
I think Swedish sounds horrible.
I think Italian would be a good pick. After all, it's European, quiet easy and is related to pretty much all European languages.
*quite
does swedish have genders for objects?
if so fuck off
French but with phonetic spelling
Bonsyo mussyu, sa va ?
Thcryes byan mersee.
Sy'em la bagett
Sakchrebleuuu
Myself am fond of Japanese, simple yet elegant
La lengua de Cervantes.
Italian should be the world language.
Elegant, best phonetics, doesn't hurt your ears with unpleasant sounds, expressive.
totally unbiased opinion btw
No, it hasn't
""""""""""""""""""""simple""""""""""""""""""""
German, neither simple nor elegant.
The language of Gods and Rulers.
Proofs
pretty much all european languages are related to eachother droeftoeter
yes it does have genders. Common or neuter, en or ett.
Mandarin with the Latin alphabet
Would sound horrible without it desu
Why not latin? It's a dead language nobody will be prefered and many speak it.
LINGVA LATINA
I
N
G
V
A
L
A
T
I
N
A
Tonal languages, including Swedish, as lingua franca would be retarded.
I say Anglo-Saxon / Ænglisc
i'm not sure you want that. i studied latin in high school and declinations are terrible.
A good alternative would be the "latino sine flexione", which is pretty much an artificial and semplified latin that uses prepositions instead of declinations, invented by the italian mathematician Giuseppe Peano
Latin is pretty easy to learn
t. funlan
>What would be a better lingua franca than English?
Literally any other European language tbqh
I'd go with Spanish or Italian since they're the closest to Latin without actually being Latin
Esperato probably given that it wouldn't piss anyone off (other than Anglos for losing their position) and it was specifically designed to be easy to learn
That said, Eglish i probably not going to lose its position as the Lingua Franca any time soon due to the internet, the elite of virtually every country speaking it and the fact that it's the unifiying language of India and most of Africa.
>Spanish
Un and una depending on whether the Word is Male or Female, the language is retarded
>most of Africa.
isn't that french though?
I studied it too in high school, but I'm not sure simplified Latin would take off.
Not that classical Latin would either of course.
*sentence
>latino sine flexione
No fucking way.
Just because all of you Mediterraneans speak your lazy Vulgar Latin doesn't mean we want to relinquish the beauty of declination. A language with just two cases isn't a language and cannot be accepted.
Latin.
you frenchmen and your fucking inferiority complex
MAKE
FRANCE
FRANKISH
AGAIN
artificial languages never take off (see Esperanto).
And classical latin went extinct for a reason: too complicated, open and closed vowels could be confused (venit could mean "he comes" or "he came" depending on the "length" of the "e"), and also many words had the same pronunciation but different meanings ("os" meant "bone" but also "mouth").
i'm studying romance philology so the topic is a current issue for me
>A Kraut complaining about other people's inferiority complexes
Africa was roughly half-French half-british ruled
Nigeria, South Africa (those two alone make up more than half of the GDP of Sub-Saharan Africa), Zimbabwe, Namibia, Malawi, Tanzania, Kenya, Uganda and Botswana all have very high English-speaking populations and use English as the primary language of governance
swedish has genders too
French would.
German would be good too.
I'm quite happy with english though tbqh
fuck declinations, prepositions are so much easier
Not in that pathetic way
I like the sounds of German and Russian 2bh
The present and past of venire are pronounced differently, the past has a long e.
English has lots of homophones, that doesn't mean shit.
Latin because it would be like live action roleplaying
"I speak Spanish to God, Italian to women, French to men, and German to my horse."
exactly in that pathetic way
both swedish and spanish have 2 genders
it's just that someone decided to call the swedish distinction "neuter and common" and the spanish distinction "masculine and feminine"
It's because all the swedish men have been neutered
English is the bastard son of all 4 languages
vowel sounds are not as distinct as consonant sounds, that's why vowel length is non-existent in neolatin languages
for you pic related
DUTCH
Dutch is like English in German
>Dutch is like English in German
What?
Proto indo european language
Esperanto is the only real choice
Most logically thinking it would be german. (at least for europe)
>strongest economic force in Europe
>After Brexit strongest political force in the EU(debatable)
>relatively high amount of speakers (98 million)
Most of European languages have gendered nouns, Sven
Fuck all that shit, German just sounds cool so I agree.
There's no stopping it. It (is and) will be English.
English speakership is growing significantly across the world, while other European languages are becoming less relevant (except Spanish/French through colonial influence). But not even Spanish/French has the effect of making the Chinese/Indians/etc learn the language.
It's already the primary language of international institutions and commerce.
Mandarin isn't really "growing" because chinese populations are falling and few learn it outside of the Chinese. Also, the Chinese are learning English quickly, so there's no need for english speakers to learn Mandarin.
Say a sentence in esperanto so i know how it sounds/looks like
In that case most languages are retarded, and futher proof of is glorious swedish would be as lingua franca
Irish
Begin by actually speaking it in your own country first
...
>Esperanto
It just sounds like a weird Spanish to me
we would if it were the lingua franca
get to it guys, be part of the revival
see
I'm sorry but I don't see how an African language would be a good lingua franca
Irish is pretty, but fuck your spelling honestly
Not him but I've lost count of how many times I have explained the complex nature of Irish language here, we're like Belarus
Not German. It's probably the most disgusting language along with Arabic. Or anything with that back of the throat speaking shit.
Mandarin > English > any language not analytic
You are made of our flesh.
Make Britain Ænglisc again.
Latin is a pain in the ass grammatically speaking, it's not even about the declinations but about the actual grammar rules
Honestly the world should speak Polish because it's super easy to learn and pronounce
If Russian is any indication of how much more difficult Polish would be I am never touching it
Kurwa
>Proceeds to masturbate to people calling your language hard
remove any genderised language.
finnish + malay .:D
Natürlich nur die Feinste Sprache
Deutsch
see, this leaf gets it
oh no you've seen through my clever ruse
Spanish
the spelling makes sense though, don't be jelly
>Natürlich nur die Feinste Sprache
>Feinste Sprache
>Feinste
>Feinste
>Feinste
>Feinste
>Feinste
Please delete yourself
hoil doch angelohanrei
fuck you and your 40 ways of pronouncing "sh"
Spanish, French.
I non-ironically hope that the great Latin people will solve the angloproblem in USA.
Tagalog
language of the most powerful people in the world
nice try, but the most powerfull people except chinese are the Latin Americans
and they will replace English in USA I hope
I rather prefer Dutch