What are the Worst Possible International Languages? (Collab with Dracheneks) 

and don't forget naïve.

and coördinate

@@sigmaballsnetwork Only at the New Yorker

@@simonregan471 yeah but I use it because I want English to be as complex as humanly possible

Somebody ought to define the vocabulary of that abve-mentioned language. Out of a million possible words how many should be used for easy English, how many for advanced English and how many for excellent English? Simply because of that fact I gave up learning new words in English long ago. And some journal named "Spotlight" justifies its existence by always "delving" (another great word) into that impossible one-million word vocabulary.

danes be like huuughh hhhauuughhgghhhhjjjjeauugh

@@_peepee_ Danes be like **Cthulu noises from the interdimensional portal**

dont icelandic people already speak danish?

@@moritzhexagon Icelandic and Danish are very different. That's like saying that English people already speak Dutch.

Denmark, Faeroe Islands, Greenland, plus one of the variants of Norwegian as I understand it is very similar to Danish, and its widely spoken in Iceland. So it seems to be fairly international.

@@daveanderson8927 Faeroe islands speak faeroese which is closer to icelandic and old norse

​@@daveanderson8927 Which variants of Norwegian? Are you talking about one of our written languages perhaps?

This presumes that one is a Daneland-truther

I’m a dane and I would have been furious if I had the internet to watch this video.

As a dane i can confirm, if i was able to watch this video id be fuming

@@FallenDummy thank god you don't exist

based

they can't arrow all of us

@@NLite486 let's both go there tomorrow

@@gavim I'm already here, wya?

I think the only true ‘global’ language is English at the moment. But the others he mentioned are very widespread in their regions, arabic being the Middle East, Spanish central/South America, French in Africa, and mandarin in Eastern Asia to an extent. I think you have to take into account the huge diaspora from all these languages too, they all have huge populations in countries where they’re minority. That’s my grain of sand!

English is still an international language in Asia. It's not uncommon to see Chinese tourists speaking English in Thailand, etc. Of course, a Chinese dialect might be spoken at home as a family's heritage language and Mandarin is studied at school but when all else fails, folks will try English.

And even Chinese people usually don't know all the characters

@@frisianmouve True! It's kind of fun watching folks arguing about what radical to use in an obscure character. If they don't have anything to write on they'll start drawing in the air with their fingers. I guess the analogy is Europeans and Americans correcting each other's spelling in the comments.

​@@rolinha1275much of the Chinese diaspora doesn't even speak Mandarin though, especially older immigrant families from Canton

Jeg tror ikke jeg kender nogen, som kan bruge "når" og "da" rigtigt

​@@asgerhougardmikkelsen8770 AH HELL NAH 😭😂 that gibberish is a language 🤣

@@delinquente1444 wait Til you see dutch

Ni borde börja prata svenska istället. Det gick ju bra för skåningarna.

@@asgerhougardmikkelsen8770 Som udlænding har jeg altid lært, at man bruger "da" når det drejer sig om en handling i fortiden og "når" når det drejer sig om en gentagen handling. Is that right?Jeg bruger tit "da" i stedet for "fordi" ligesom man gør på tysk:-)

It works fairly well as a European Interlingua, The distribution of the western European branch I think it’s pretty viable still

Hoera!

Gebaseerd

Gekoloniseerd poes

Specifically Jersey Dutch

Malay Archipelago 😟

The Danes have an annoying habit of putting News about their Royal Family , sand especially Crown Princess Mary , on the Internet ,only in Danish, when they can all speak English anyway. Norwegian and Swedish are the same language, written with slightly different spelling, They Norwegians and Swedes can understand written Danish , but not the spoken language. Even Crown Prince Frederik does not speak English as well sas he did, because he had to speak Danish even in his home to help his wife learn this difficult language. My husband and I grew up in Cumberland , and spoke the local language , as well as speaking English . Its sounds are like Danish, but it is in fact like the Norse spoken in south east Norway. The population is relatively pure because until the roads out were improved 20 yearsago Cumbria was almost cut off from the main British road system and the rail system goes a long roundabout way along the coast . When we did his DNA it came out as 59% Norwegian , 22% Swedish, 18% Scottish , and only 1% English ( from his Great,grandmother) . Cumbrian should be the world language so that the Danes would not have to use English.

Yeah, but most of that is Siberia where pretty much nobody lives. Also, Eastern Europe hates Russia (and who can blame them...).

I would disagree, since number of Russian speaker counting to max number is less than 300 million. That's only around 1/3 of low estimate for Mandarin.

@@Gareth1892000 Yes, but they're almost all Han Chinese in 3 countries. It's one group with a lot of members, not many groups.

@@smergthedargon8974 Even if they are in 1 country, there are more people speak Mandarin than 3 times Russian. This brings Mandarin as better lingua franca.

@@Gareth1892000 "Long Doan" Hmmmmmm, this statement may be biased...

In fairness- even the Danes admit their language is insanely difficult. Especially their numbering system.

Mas não dá para unificarmos o Português sem estragar as variantes únicas

Mais uma vez? Quando que português foi idioma supremo?

@@tosch5274 El español fue lengua franca. Hermanos lusos.

se portugal fizer parte não vai ter graça já aviso

@@urieldaboamorte Não te preocupes, não queremos

Noam Chomsky moment

Ooga booga

Aight. What abour Loj ban?

There's a video out there about a repetoire of signs that's common to apes across all species. If true, it's a remarkable finding. Communicating emotion goes back even deeper into the animal past and crosses many more species. The more primal the emotion, ie aggression and fear, the more universally understood it is. Representing abstract symbolic thought is a lot more complicated than communicating fear, obviously, but it's an ability that was built up from earlier communication strategies by natural selection. Our ability to exchange intellectual information positivity affects our ability to pass on genetic information. We might be seeing the next layer of information exchange strategies emerging at this moment in history with the creation of artificial AI personalities. Our ability to interact socially was at first constrained by proximity and time. Then came writing. Now we have computers but despite being linkex to the world, our monkey minds are still constrained by the speed of biological processes AIs can think at the speed of electricity and interact potentially with everyone online at a given moment. Someone is going to set one up as God or Jesus sometime soon and that's gonna be fun to watch.

Hissssss

You don't have to write to use a language though.

@@daveanderson8927 何

​@@daveanderson8927 you have to write if you're learning it in school

There was a girl in my high school who did a year abroad in Denmark (this was many years ago). I always found that an interesting choice.

worked for Israel. And Catalonia (to a certain extent, yes I know it was never actually extinct).

Akkadian, you’re up!

Latin, obviously.

Ancient Egyptian.

I tried to learn Swedish as a teenager many years ago (from a book and tapes). I gave up after about 3 weeks. The spoken language bore no obvious resemblance to the written language I could figure out.

@@daveanderson8927 Makes sense, I do not really notice that as a native speaker, to me when I learned English it was much like your experience with Swedish :)

No it wouldn't. In fact, one language but separate ethnic ancestrally based states with strong borders would be even better. We could still communicate online but stay in our own homelands.

@@daveanderson8927 I disagree. 1. Speaking a different language makes you think in a different way, and we always welcome new ideas. 2. Dangerous ideologies, that can spread fast, have difficulties spreading over to a population of another language. 3. Sometimes language is the only thing holding a culture (different from mainstream) together. Imagine a boring world where 7000+ cultures disappeared because someone wanted a global dominant language. I like diversity and international cooperation, however recently I've realized that globalisation just seems to be a fancy word for global dominaton and contoll. A few ethnically mixed countries needs to exist in order to have peace, however if every country would be a English speaking mix ethnic group, the there is no reason to travel anymore is there?

Georgian is still king of the consonant clusters, at least!

Ich lerne deutsch um englisch zu töten Die zwei sätze sehen sehr ähnlich aus und ich denke dass das cool ist

Given the English MI5 language guide, it's probably Basque as it behaves differently than most languages in grammar. The form of the word can shift on you just based on another word in the sentence.

Words transcend parts of speech in basically all languages, collective nouns are also very common. They weren't mispellings, they were phonetic representations of how words were pronounced, and those word counts of languages are all bs

Names to groupings are common at least in mandarin! It actually functions almost exactly the same way interestingly

As an aglutinative as they come language user, yes, word counts are .....😶 Let's say the tickle me wrong hearing them. Because; While some of my languages suffixes and sometimes suffix combinations are words in their own right in other languages, [some of them words not having a meaning alone (obviously because they're Xfixes) by the way], but the word(sssss) I make with combining them aren't counted as "words". sure pals. And I don't only stack them together while forming words. Result is not a stack of words like a sentence but written without a space. they're their own creations. I harmonise the sounds of wowels to the root and then strengthen or soften the consonants in it to ease the use, and obey rules of adding like the placement and which fix to and not to include in stacking etc.... So, may I ask, if a language can make words on the go like that, why should it's core have a word count of an avarage word count of nonaglutinative ones(not that aglutinative I mean, as many have some scant at least aglutination I hear)? Even languages like Arabic counts their regularly formed versions of their roots as words. But we can't. Agreed, we too know that all words we form aren't themselves dictionary worthy/countable basically, and yes, such a combination dictionary would be uncarriable by muggle means and be beyond hell to read/search in. But I get frustrated hearing word counts nonetheless.

English spelling is ... difficult. The root cause is the great vowel shift, so all vowels are different from the other European languages. Well except French, ok, but that has has at least its own consistent system. The creative spelling printers from god knows where brought into the language do not make it easier. Verbing nouns is not a problem, all languages have ways to do that (if they have that difference). It is just the English shows way more flexibility than other languages in that regard.

Idk why people say English is hard, as a japanese i learned English relatively much easier than French or German 😂

That's a great video.

This is proof that danish is the superior north germanic language

I vote for swedish with a thick Gothenburg accent. De e la ba å tjicka nåra lax te boen så kan de lära säj tala som räktit folk.

Norwegian is just German with a Swedish accent

It's not alone in its family. Svan, Mingrelian, and Laz exist.

@@the_linguist_ll they are all part of the georgian ethnos

@@sakesaurus1706 They're all seperate but related languages

@@the_linguist_ll whatever the case it's a relatively stranded family that has no ties to any other family, a group of languages unto itself

No. Basque

@@modmaker7617 Bruh, Basque doesn't even have split-ergativity (I think). :)

@@seneca983 Basque grammar on the other hand.

@@Eibarwoman What I mentioned is a part of the grammar.

@@seneca983 I was still thinking about the oddity of how sentence and word structure seemed to change by changing another word in there. Basque is a strange and fun language to me.

i dobrze

@@MrZylak I bardzo źle.

@@MrZylak No

It could become ubykhuitous.

Why would that be a bad choice?

@@Mortablunt I mean that he forgot to mention it as one of the international languages. Also our grammar is cursed and you have to learn tons of words endings if you aren't native.

There's also Basque which has a grammar nightmare. Speaking it at the level of a small child is easy, but speaking it fluently on the other hand is perhaps the hardest of existent languages as the large the vocabulary grows, the more complex the grammar becomes as changing one word in the sentence changes multiple other words in the sentence.