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2865 votes total
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| Vote here if the future global language should be an existing "Natural Language". The following alphabetical list shows the 20 most widely spoken languages in the world. If the language you want is not on the list, vote for "Other existing natural language". Write down the name of your chosen language under 5. |
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English (258) |
 22% |
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Other existing natural language (255) |
 22% |
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Arabic (156) |
13% |
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Portuguese (88) |
 7% |
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French (85) |
 7% |
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Spanish (75) |
6% |
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Russian (51) |
4% |
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German (36) |
3% |
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Japanese (16) |
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Bengali (13) |
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Cantonese (13) |
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Javanese (13) |
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Wu (11) |
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Hindi (10) |
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Tamil (10) |
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Korean (10) |
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Vietnamese (9) |
1% |
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Marathi (8) |
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Telugu (8) |
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| Vote here if the future global language should be an existing "Constructed International Language". The following alphabetical list shows 10 of such recognized languages. If the language you want is not on the list, vote for "Other existing constructed language" . Write down the name of your chosen language under 6. |
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Esperanto (1924) |
78% |
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Ido (152) |
6% |
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Interlingua (IALA) (111) |
 5% |
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Other existing constructed language (83) |
3% |
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Lingua Franca Nova (35) |
1% |
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Glosa (35) |
1% |
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Universal Networking Language (30) |
1% |
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Loglan (25) |
1% |
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Occidental (25) |
1% |
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Eurolang (25) |
1% |
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Next Generation Language (21) |
1% |
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| Vote here if the future global language should be a |
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Newly Developed Language (205) |
100% |
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| What is the main reason for your decision? Please also mention the name of your chosen language. |
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| | 1. Interlingua combines the advantages of the most of european languages (except serbian-likes), and european people can learn it very easily because of the high-degree similarity.
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| | 2. it is simple |
| | 3. Probably English will be the world's future common language, because the internet is spreading it more than ever before. However, if its drawbacks are to be avoided (difficult writing-spelling correlation, political aspects), only the most simple constructed language can succeed. Glosa is based on concepts, little vocabulary, has nearly no grammar, easy pronounciation,... |
| | 4. Loglan (Lojban) offers the most culturally neutral language I have studied so far. The structure of the language, it's vocabulary and the potential for easy human-computer interfacing makes it a strong candidate for global usage as both a spoken and digital medium.
The strongest (and also weakest) point is it's alien nature. It bares so little resemblance to any other natural language, that it is equally easy (or hard) to learn for all cultures on this world.
A language like Esperanto is beautiful in it's simplicity, but only for people with a European background. Some experiments I have conducted with people from different nationalities have shown that, for people of Asian decent, Esperanto is still very hard to understand. The differences between Esperanto and eastern languages is simply to great.
Lojban overcomes this by forming it's vocabulary and grammar from a far more diverse pool of natural languages, including Chinese and Arabic. This makes it harder for western people than it is to learn Esperanto, but it evens the playing field for the rest of the world, which really should be the focus for a truly culturally neutral and unbiased language. |
| | 5. Widespread and culture would refuse to learn english |
| | 6. lingua franca nova is simple,derived from romance languages easy to learn & to speak |
| | 7. Absorbs vocabulary easily. Widespread. |
| | 8. Esperanto. I think it's the only constructed language that really can cope with the job: easy and practical, very flexible, it has many scientific dictionaries, a great literature, enough teachers to teach it, a large community of speakers...something that no other constructed language can offer today. |
| | 9. Se mi libere povus elekti, mi kompreneble prenus la naturan lingvon Germana, kiun mi mem pli bone regas ol la aliaj. Kompreneble mi tamen preferus, NE uzi naturan lingvon, sed la internacian lingvon Esperanto, kiu donus al chiu la saman shancon facile ghin lerni. |
| | 10. Interlingua
My main reason is that, of all international auxiliary languages, I think Interlingua is most likely to become, and remain, successful. Interlingua has grown more or less steadily since its release in 1951. By contrast, Esperanto has struggled for decades even to stay at a plateau, with the exception of a growth spurt in the 1920s and another in the 1960s. Contrary to publicity, there is no reliable evidence that Esperanto has 2,000,000 speakers. That claim by Culbert has been thoroughly debunked by Mikosek. Membership in all national Esperanto organizations combined is about 20,000, and it's unlikely that the number of speakers is 100 times that amount.
In the past, Esperanto advocates have maintained the hegemony of their language by exaggerating its success and concealing the success of a reasonably close competitor: Ido in the first half of the twentieth century and Interlingua in the second. With the growth of the Internet, the exaggerations of the Esperanto movement have had to be toned down more and more because counterevidence is becoming readily available. That's why the figure of 2,000,000 originally came into vogue, and why |
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| If you voted "Other existing natural language" under 1., write down the name of your chosen language in this box: |
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| | 1. Norwegian |
| | 2. Croatian |
| | 3. Bahasa Indonesia |
| | 4. English |
| | 5. greek |
| | 6. English |
| | 7. Wurlang(tm) - The World Languege |
| | 8. Gaelic |
| | 9. Gaelic |
| | 10. anglais |
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| If you voted "Other existing constructed language" under 2., write down the name of your chosen language in this box: |
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| | 1. Interlingua |
| | 2. Esperanto |
| | 3. Interlingua |
| | 4. Standard Arabic |
| | 5. Toki Pona |
| | 6. Standered Arabic |
| | 7. Esperanto |
| | 8. Mandarin, Wu, Cantonese, Min, Hakka |
| | 9. Lingua Franca Nova |
| | 10. Wurlang(tm) - The World Languege |
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| If you voted for "New Language" under 3., write down your ideas, criteria and suggestions about such a new language: |
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| | 1. Analytic, isolating languages seem to me easier to learn than more sophisticated grammatical designs, which many constructed languages have. So I have a strong sympathy for the simplistic elegance of Glosa. I doubt, however, if it can compete with English. If not immediately spread with massive publicity and political support, no constructed language will ever become widespread. |
| | 2. A Language with a unique script, and sign-language system perhaps even non-spoken as dialects can be obstacles in communication.
By keeping the language a non-spoken language, language learning can become more rapid between cultures, as two speakers would sign as they spoke in their natural languages (a habit common to most speaking signers). Thus, any misinterpretation in the spoken languages could be corrected in the corresponding sign language.
One nickname for the language could be |
| | 3. study and choose language that will allow reasonably attainable oral inflections for major international communities.
Same as above for text.
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| | 4. The world should have a logical well organized language, that is based on the though process of the average human. Therefore, I think, this will expand our capabilities of thought and rationalism. This newly developed language would be comprised virtually all possible human sounds, but this may be a tedious task, therefore one teach this language to their youth, for it will be more easily comprehended. |
| | 5. Wurlang(tm) - The World Languege is a first cousin to conventional English, eliminating irregularites and exceptions. One significant key is a revolutionary method of simplifying pronunciation marks named SWIL(sm) - Sound With Letters, using bold and italic letters. These can uniquely be sent by electronic means to facilitate education and communication.
See . |
| | 6. Sambahsa-mundialect (see what I've already written under 4). |
| | 7. Current languages are binded to people with a historic of hate and pride, a new language coming out of most of the existent will have to appear. |
| | 8. anglais |
| | 9. Summarized in Item 4. It eliminates all irregularities in persons and numbers of speech, tenses, and simplifies troublesome conventional English usages. Most of the main structure of English words are retained. The 470 page copyrighted dictionary is listed by sound, not spelling. A promotion, 134 page, book of the title has been printed in small quantities. |
| | 10. Der Lautbestand sollte möglichst nur diejenigen Phoneme enthalten, die von möglichst allen Menschen Weltweit ohne Schwierigkeiten artikuliert und verstanden werden kann. Daher z.B. keine Tonsprache, da diese Eigenschaft nur auf wenige Sprachen zutrifft und es zudem jedem Indoeuropäer schwerfallen dürfte, diese Laute zu unterscheiden.
Grammatik und Wortschatz sollten möglichst einfach gehalten sein (leicht erlernbar), auch sollten Synonyme und Homonyme vermieden werden. Dennoch müssten auch wissenschaftliche, philosophische und technische Gespräche möglich sein.
Es sollten Sprecher und Fachleute jeder Sprachgruppe weltweit an diesem Projekt mitwirken, um eine möglichst neutrale und für alle akzeptable Sprache zu entwickeln.
Allerdings darf man skeptisch bleiben, angesichts von linguistischen Schwierigkeiten und Erfahrungen. Da immer noch das Problem der Dialektentstehung und regionalen Aufsplitterung besteht! (s. Englische Sprache - aufgesplittert in regionale Slangs, Pidgins und Kreolsprachen, die untereinander nur schwer oder gar nicht verständlich sind) Siehe auch Entwicklung jeder anderen natürlichen Sprache! Abgesehen von der politischen Einigkeit, die ein solches Projekt voraussetzt! Dennoch glaube ich, dass dies eines Tages möglich sein wird. Es bräuchte dann auch eine Institution bzw. Sprachakademie, welche die Weiterentwicklung und Standards weltweit überwacht und lenkt. |
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21% |
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English (484) |
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French (439) |
16% |
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Portuguese (244) |
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German (210) |
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